"At their best, they erect a grammatical artifice in which mental balconies and watch towers, as well as bridges and recesses, decorate the main structure."
— Gerth, Hans H. (1908-1978) and C. Wright Mills (1916-1962)
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
1946
Metaphor
"At their best, they erect a grammatical artifice in which mental balconies and watch towers, as well as bridges and recesses, decorate the main structure."
Metaphor in Context
It is obvious that this school of writing is not what it is because of the inability of its practitioners to write well. They simply follow an altogether different style. They use parentheses, qualifying clauses, inversions, and complex rhythmic devices in their polyphonous sentences. Ideas are synchronized rather than serialized. At their best, they erect a grammatical artifice in which mental balconies and watch towers, as well as bridges and recesses, decorate the main structure. Their sentences are gothic castles. And Max Weber's style is definitely in their tradition.
(p. vi)
(p. vi)
Provenance
Reading Josephine Miles, Poetry and Change. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. p. 19.
Citation
Max Weber. Essays in Sociology. Ed. Gerth, Hans H. and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford UP, 1946. <Link to Google Books edition>
Date of Entry
02/27/2009
Date of Review
12/02/2009
