Prose

Prose ( from the Latin per (r ) sus / prose oratio - something like: " straight out, simple, unbound" ) refers to the unbound speech in contrast to the formulation in verse or in conscious rhythmic language. As prosaic is called, derived from a comparatively dry, sober presentation.

Originally the term of the prose was used as a term for scientific, fixed written texts ( for example, in the writing of history, philosophy and the natural sciences ) as well as for taking notes in written form as opposed to the seal, which mostly written in verse to the 18th century and for oral presentation was intended.

This difference determined the modern understanding of literature until the 18th century, which included a rating system, which basically preferred the Versrede and the prose in this system " on formative force " understood as a defect.

Later, the term was commonly used prose for each type of text, for both the casual everyday speech as well as for the artfully designed fictional text; since the 18th century, the term is also used interchangeably with the narrative or epic literature, especially for the novel as the main medium of this literary genre.

As such a generic theoretical term prose refers to those different generic elements of literature, Observed, perceived, thought up and the thought to tell and more or less interpret: put in a pronounced or unspoken meaning - context, explain, comment on, analyze and evaluate, and the ( in contrast to verse drama and poetry) are not versförmig in its presentation.

Prose genres are eg novels, novellas, short stories, short stories, essays, feature articles, memoirs, biographies, letters, factual texts of all kinds, and the entire scientific literature.

However, although the prose is not necessarily determined by fixed rules of text composition, it can be quite compact structurally. So prose texts can be intensified in their design openness in many ways, for example by rhetorical figures or rhythmic phrase endings or by one of "the development of thought appropriate, logical eurythmy " (W. v. Humboldt ) or a " mental syntax " (J. Grimm). The characteristics of prose can also change with their respective quantity; Length is therefore constitutes a prerequisite for epic unfolding, shortness of aphoristic concision

The ( literary ) historical success of the prose, especially since the 20th century is also linked to the " disintegration binding worldviews in the process of modernity", in which the prose " to display the form for a world " is "in, nothing more rhymes. '"

The use of prose shares its content with, for example, in speech, conversation, letters, articles, and nonfiction (eg legal texts or manuals). Of these, one distinguishes the literary prose that uses in word choice, sentence structure, tone of voice, imagery and rhythm of speech consciously poetic design element. The scientific prose (eg in philosophy ) overlaps at times with the literary prose.

In literary studies is controversial whether the contrast poetry & prose is to establish a generic system that " natural forms " lyric, epic and dramatic is equivalent to the concept of.

In contrast to the prosaic term that refers to sobriety in expressing themselves "political prose " and " academic prose " ( "Application prose " similar ) are characterized by the unusual floral relation to current buzzwords of political and / or scientific days of discussion.