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What does paratactic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to or using parataxis.
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If you have a low tolerance for paratactic sentences and pure weirdness, this novel probably isn't for you.
This is in part because its form is paratactic and can therefore seem like a loose assemblage of small pieces without a coherent shape.
Howe's paratactic evocations of Henry David Thoreau's and Herman Melville's New England are enveloped, sliced, and stuttered by Grubbs's acoustic and electronic composition.
The paratactic rhythm created by the conjunction 'and' generates a form of diagrammatic simplification that helps to produce an explicit sense of conflicting planes.
Mlinko's most obvious influence is the conversational, paratactic style of Frank O'Hara, but her intoxicating, cerebral poems display a unique sense of humor and mystery.
It is the translator's task to favor paratactic structures and avoid the more complex hypotactic structures as much as possible.

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