Pam Jennings / Solitaire Dream Journal:
The Books of Melancholy, Flight and Balance
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Written narratives
Unidirectional
Aristotelian paradigm
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Oral narratives
Iterative, circular
Boxes within boxes
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Elements of narrative as individual
agents
Work revolving around life rhythms (eating, sleeping, night-day,
season)
No resolution
Episodes of varying lengths, in which tension increases, explodes,
resumes.
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Single outcome
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Numerous crisis and peaks (feminine)
Audience responsiveness (physical and verbal) is a crucial element
in the telling. The oral narrator will change the narrative accordingly.
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| Closed
work (Eco) |
Open
work (Eco) |
| Traditional tonality |
Poetics of Serial, Polyvalent
Perpetual expansion |
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Aristotelian logic
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Fuzzy logic
Post modernity:
Immanence: the mind its own environment.
Indeterminacy: evasion of direct connection through discontinuity,
pluralism, deconstruction, silence
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