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  • 7 - Style

  • from Part I - Parts of Prose
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Prose
    Published online:
    05 November 2021
    Print publication:
    18 November 2021, pp 112-128

  • Summary

    Michael D. Hurley’s chapter considers the many applications of the concept of style and pursues its historical fortunes across a range of writers. Although style has been variously configured and refigured, what is apparent is that the ideal of clarity, so frequently promoted by style guides and other textbooks, is not the only objective of style, especially not in literary fiction and non-fiction.

  • Lightening up before death

  • A.D. (Sandy) Macleod
  • Journal:
    Palliative & Supportive Care / Volume 7 / Issue 4 / December 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 November 2009, pp. 513-516

  • A lightening, or clearing, of the mental state in the hours or days before death, particularly in those delirious, is occasionally noted by those caring for the dying. Similar phenomena have been described in the natural world and in classical literature. This brief period of lucidity is generally followed by a rapid terminal decline. The author reports on his experience with six cases illustrating this phenomenon. The increasing use of palliative sedation may diminish the possibility of lightening up before death occurring. The theoretical concepts of Hughlings Jackson may provide an explanation for this phenomenon.