Gross Negligence
GROSS NEGLIGENCE
An indifference to, and a blatant violation of, a legal duty with respect to the rights of others.
Gross negligence is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or both. It is conduct that is extreme when compared with ordinary negligence, which is a mere failure to exercise reasonable care. Ordinary negligence and gross negligence differ in degree of inattention, while both differ from willful and wanton conduct, which is conduct that is reasonably considered to cause injury. This distinction is important, since contributory negligence—a lack of care by the plaintiff that combines with the defendant's conduct to cause the plaintiff's injury and completely bar his or her action—is not a defense to willful and wanton conduct but is a defense to gross negligence. In addition, a finding of willful and wanton misconduct usually supports a recovery of punitive damages, whereas gross negligence does not.
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The prose poem: an alternative to verse.
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...conventional book of verse. It comprised short prose musings on the subject of death, with...the grounds that it is predominantly in prose. He argued that the prestigious award...distribute accolades. It was clear then that prose had not yet gained acceptance as a medium...
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The prose poem: an apology.(Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Final Killings Even at this late hour the prose poem is still either strong meat or invita...somewhat pejoratively starts the entry on the prose poem by calling it oxymoronic Yet, this...stems primarily from the question of the prose poem as a hybrid form or genre (never...
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The prose poem is a poem writt ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/4/2003; 700+ words
; The prose poem is a poem written in prose rather verse, which makes it a weird hybrid, an anomalous genre. It avails itself of the elements of prose (what Dryden called "the other harmony of prose") while foregrounding...
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Russian Minimalism: From the Prose Poem to the Anti-Story
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Wanner rightly points out, the prose poem is anarchic by nature and...presentation' or the labeling of prose poems. Wanner credits Turgenev...Baudelaire's Petitspoemes en proses was decidedly conservative and...realist successor Ivan Bunin's prose poems are foregrounded in the...
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TWO CULTURES OF THE PROSE POEM
Magazine article from: Michigan Quarterly Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; TWO CULTURES OF THE PROSE POEM Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. Edited by David Lehman...346. $16 (paper). Dreaming the Miracle: Three French Prose Poets: Max Jacob, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain. Translated...
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Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a genre in French and American Literature.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a Genre in French and American...wide-ranging etat present of recent prose-poetry criticism, Steven Monte outlines...pragmatic, that is, it interests itself in prose poetry more as an interpretative framework...
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The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World.(Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World...University Press, 1997. Claiming that "prose remains one of the last undefined, untheorized...admitting the absence of such canonical prose writers as Castiglione, Elyot, and Machiavelli...
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Molly Lynde-Recchia, Prose, Verse and Truth-Telling in the Thirteenth Century: an Essay on Form and Function in Selected Texts, Accompanied by an Edition of the Prose 'Thebes' as Found in the 'Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar'.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...author's i993 doctoral thesis on the prose Thebes, and includes discussions of Wauchier...vernacular Lives of St Eustache (one in prose and one in verse), Aucassin et Nicolette...factors that led to the rise of vernacular prose in the thirteenth century: chief amongst...
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Accommodating Commodity: The Prose Poem.
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...distinctions have been enforced between poetry and prose (and among numerous other genres, including...lexicons, too, confirm that poetry and prose have been considered both distinct from...Alphonse Rabbe is said to have inaugurated the prose poem with his "La Pipe" (1825), followed...
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The peculiar, wonder-like lightning of prose poetry.(Poetry Today)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; Petites formes en prose apres Edison by Florence Delay. Fayard, 130 pp., 13.60 euros. Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present by David...Poetry, 346 pp., $16.00. Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse by Stephen...
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PROSE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
PROSE [From Latin prosus direct or straightforward...patterning of VERSE. A negative perception of prose, which has persisted from classical times...greatly in the 20c, in the course of which prose has become the dominant form of printed discourse...
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prose
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
prose / prōz / • n. 1. written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure: a short story in prose | [as adj. ] a prose passage. ∎ fig. plain or dull writing, discourse...
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Prose, Francine 1947-
Book article from: Something About the Author
PROSE, Francine 1947- Personal Born April 1...Jessie (a physician; maiden name, Rubin) Prose; married Howard Michels (a sculptor...York, NY), 2003. Sidelights Francine Prose has enjoyed a long and accomplished career...
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Proses lyriques
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Proses lyriques ( Lyrics in prose ). 4 songs for v. and pf. by Debussy to his own texts. Comp. 1892–3. Titles are: De Rêve (Of a dream), De Grève (About the Shore), De Fleurs (About flowers), De Soir (About evening).
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alliterative prose
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
alliterative prose, a tradition of Old and Middle English prose elevated in style by the employment of some of the techniques of alliterative verse. Its most distinguished exponents are Ælfric and Wulfstan in Old English, and the writers...
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