1. In what way does music inform the novel
Music is displayed as an essential commodity to the text; through the omnipresent narrator's rhythm that provides continuity to the mellifluous rhetoric, but also through the characters" own tribulations. ... The streams of consciousness almost seem beyond the prose style of the novel, rather they present to us a poetic state that provide the rhythm and conscious of music, rather than literature. ... Toni Morrison, as in a jazz band, provides the "double bass" of the novel through the omnipresent narrator, keeping a continuous rhythm and providing effective continuity throughout the nov...
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