![]() ![]() The prose here is au courant, fluent in the meme-inflected argot of the relatively young extremely online reader, and exemplary of the transparent, personality-effacing style of writers coming out of MFA programs. Sarah Thankam Mathew’s All This Could be Different has been marketed, and widely reviewed, as a novel in which electric prose serves a calling higher than the merely aesthetic. Parallelly, to say of a work that its form and function are at odds is not quite censure though it can be depending, that is, on whether their interaction frustrates or furthers the communicative goals of the work and if that detracts from the effect of the work on the whole. ![]() But there is general agreement on the view that to say of a work that it exhibits unity of prose and purpose, or form and function, is a commendation. The prose versus purpose, form versus function, distinction has a storied history both as whipping boy and foundational concept in literary criticism. ![]()
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