Blog-Poetic Inventory/writing experience (in progress)

Jazz (Toni Morrison)

• wrote about a time she didn’t actually experience herself
• non-linear narratives
• gives cultural/family background information to better understand characters

Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

• uses traditional Laguna traditions as an interface to better understand Tayo (used traditional and original Laguna myths)
• non-linear narratives
• Historical context- a people struggling with drought of the 50′s; plutonium mining in southwest
• Silko uses all three levels of our paradigm

Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)

• uses historical as well as original narratives as interface for his search narrative
• use of meaning in names to further embody who the character really is “signature theory”
• novel just ends without resolution because all major/important subjects had already been resolved

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)

• use of non-linear narrative to explain the history of Oskar’s family.
• search narrative creates historical context for the reader with 9/11 and Dresden bombing
• disciplinary discourse from paradigm using interviews from survivors
• pictures used for interface