Self-study
P1
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Context ·
Literature has often aspired to contain features of music
Spotlight ·
Toni Morrison's novel Jazz
First African American writer to use a musical genre as a structuring principle for an entire novel. Other writers had used musicians and music as themes and metaphors in writing.
P2
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Connection to music in Morrison's novel ·
Content and form is like the music genre jazz
Narration shifts between third-person omniscience of narrator and first-person from key characters. These shifts show that narrative is cohesive, but acknowledges separate speakers by using quotation marks. Similar to the music jazz in way jazz band combines overall ensemble sound with solo performances.
P3
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Similarities between music jazz and novel Jazz ·
Music jazz allows unique voices within cohesive composition
Morrison's novel achieves the same effect that Duke Ellington created in his jazz compositions.
P4
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Appreciation for Morrison's novel ·
Redefines possibilities of narrative point of view
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
17.
The author's assertion in
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This doesn’t suggest Morrison wasn’t the first person to attempt to draw upon a musical genre as the structuring principle for an entire novel.
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This undermines the author’s claim by suggesting that Morrison was not the first person to attempt to draw upon a musical genre as the structuring principle for an entire novel.
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This doesn’t suggest Morrison wasn’t the first person to attempt to draw upon a musical genre as the structuring principle for an entire novel. There’s a difference between trying to make a narrative style “reminiscent of the arts” and drawing upon an art form as a structuring principle for an entire novel.
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This doesn’t suggest Morrison wasn’t the first person to attempt to draw upon a musical genre as the structuring principle for an entire novel. There’s a difference between a novel being “somewhat musical” and an attempt to make another art form the structuring principle behind a novel.
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This doesn’t suggest Morrison wasn’t the first person to attempt to draw upon a musical genre as the structuring principle for an entire novel.