In reading the first sixteen chapters of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, I was struck by the book’s exploration of perspective. The use of free-indirect discourse allows the tone, as well as the structure, of the text to shift according to the character in focus; placing us as readers in an interesting space between the character’s internal (their consciousness) and their…
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closure as a structure for interpreting all art (group d)
On pg. 88 of Scott Mccloud’s understanding comics, he draws 4 images using the aspect to aspect transition (where each frame “shows different aspects of a place, mood or idea”) to construct a scene of a woman cooking. He argues that we use ‘closure’ between each panel to create a wholeness (or maybe a reading??) of the images that fills…