Self-paced
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Appreciation for Morrison's novel ·
Redefines possibilities of narrative point of view
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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The author never indicates that other North American writers have attempted to use the narration style Morrison used in Jazz.
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The author doesn’t suggest that Jazz is the “most successful representation” of the way in which jazz musicians live and work.
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The author never suggests that the voices of individual characters are “sometimes difficult to distinguish.” Although Morrison switches back and forth between different voices and an omniscient narrator, none of this implies any difficulty in identifying different individual voices in her work.
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Supported, because another aspect of the structural analogy involves the way in which Ellington’s musicians always perform “
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The author doesn’t suggest that Morrison “disguises” the structural connections between her work and Ellington’s jazz. There’s no indication that this analogy is hidden or hard to discover.