Shoe-Horn Sonata

Writing a Visual Impression According to Misto and Marquis

The job of taking a reader into the world of a given text requires the writer to offer a visual impression that drives the imagination. Depending on the form of the text and upon its selected content, there are a number of ways to do this, whether these ways are through devices in the composition, the use of media support or some combination of the two. As the discussion here will show, there are a lot of ways to create a distinctive visual impact for the reader of a text and that the elements shaping any approach will depend a great deal on the chosen format of the text. In the discussion in this essay for instance, we find that very different approeches are used to create this experience for the reader of John Misto's play "The Shoe-horn Sonata"...
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