HELLO
@neilhimself's Norse Mythology is all of 99p on Audible today for members. I have never clicked the Buy button so hard and fast. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Fiction/Norse-Mythology-Audiobook/B06X9MJW4J
I love his writing, but I don't know why he is considered one of the great fiction writers in English. Why was James Joyce's writing so "revolutionary" for its time. I know that at one time originally it was considered risque for some reason, but I could ask the same thing about Ernest Hemingway.
@Fabjaja I agree, and have voted to reopen. It's usually more valuable to have a general overview of a literary technique than just a case study of its usage in one particular text. You've shown that this question is nicely answerable without getting overly lengthy.
One of the things I like about Lit as compared to SFF is that this site accepts questions of broad interest and usefulness, not just minutiae about specific works.
@Mithrandir How does Fabjaja's answer differ depending on which text? It's clearly possible to provide a good executive summary of general uses for this writing style.
I have read this book twice. This book is about a girl who baby-sits a neighbours baby and she saves the baby from a serial killer and confronts the killer and due to the shock/trauma of being in that incident she forgets the face of the killer. She seeks psychiatric treatment to find the killer....
[Dagny Taggart] did not ask why those men chose to make all their crucial decisions at parties of this kind; she knew that they did. She knew that behind the clattering, lumbering pretense of their council session, committee meetings, and mass debates, the decisions were made in advance, in fu...