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    Mavis Gallant says that style is inseparable from the structure and content of a work. It is not just a superficial element added at the end, but rather an integral part of how the author conveys what they want to say. For Mavis, style is a writer's unique voice and thumbprint that emerges from their lifetime of experiences reading and being influenced by other works, though no individual writer has a purely original style untouched by traditions. True style cannot be copied, but rather develops uniquely for each talented author through their own creative journey.

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    Mavis Gallant says that style is inseparable from the structure and content of a work. It is not just a superficial element added at the end, but rather an integral part of how the author conveys what they want to say. For Mavis, style is a writer's unique voice and thumbprint that emerges from their lifetime of experiences reading and being influenced by other works, though no individual writer has a purely original style untouched by traditions. True style cannot be copied, but rather develops uniquely for each talented author through their own creative journey.

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    Mavis Gallant says that style is inseparable from the structure and content of a work. It is not just a superficial element added at the end, but rather an integral part of how the author conveys what they want to say. For Mavis, style is a writer's unique voice and thumbprint that emerges from their lifetime of experiences reading and being influenced by other works, though no individual writer has a purely original style untouched by traditions. True style cannot be copied, but rather develops uniquely for each talented author through their own creative journey.

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    Mavis Gallant says that style is inseparable from the structure and content of a work. It is not just a superficial element added at the end, but rather an integral part of how the author conveys what they want to say. For Mavis, style is a writer's unique voice and thumbprint that emerges from their lifetime of experiences reading and being influenced by other works, though no individual writer has a purely original style untouched by traditions. True style cannot be copied, but rather develops uniquely for each talented author through their own creative journey.

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    What is Style ?

    -Mavis Gallant

    Summary
    Mavis Gallant says that writing is a laborious and tiresome task. According to her, reading a
    passage aloud makes her conscious of a prose rhythm which helps her to follow the text’s direction
    that is near to the way she thinks and speaks. It seems to her the only link with finished work. A
    story is connected like the thread of cloth. Its thread must hold from beginning to end, and that the
    writer of the story must not be present in it.
    Mavis explains what a literary style means for her. First she begins with what style is not. For her,
    style is not something that is done at the end of the work. Style is not a last-minute addition to
    prose, a charming and universal slipcover, a coat of paint used to mask the failings of a structure,
    she argues.
    For Mavis, style is inseparable from structure, part of the conformation of whatever the author has
    to say. All this is to say that content, meaning, intention and form must make up a whole. For her,
    like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.
    The only question worth asking about a story-or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert
    hall-is, ‘is it dead or alive?’ If a work of the imagination needs to be coaxed into life, it is better
    scrapped and forgotten. If writers are bound by rules then their expression becomes minimal. So
    writers should not limit their art in the name of rules or decorum. If they do so, they experience a
    kind of suppressed hysteria.
    According to Mavis, style in writing, as in painting, is the author’s thumbprint, his mark. She
    doesn’t mean that it establishes her as finer or greater than other writers, though that can happen
    too. She considers that prose style is a writer’s armorial bearings, his name and address. The writer
    is known by how and what style he uses in his writings.
    All writers, says Mavis, are more or less influenced by other writers. Here, she comes closer to T.
    S. Eliot’s idea of Tradition and Individualism. Hence, no writer possesses his own ‘pure’ style. A
    writer is influenced through his reading of others’ works. Mavis thinks that a young person who
    does not read and read widely, will never write anything.
    Finally, Mavis strongly states that style is an art that cannot be copied, except by the untalented. It
    is, finally, the distillation of a lifetime of reading and listening, of selection and rejection. But if it
    is not a true voice, it is nothing.

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