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edit| Vignette (literature) | |
|---|---|
| Formats | Literary prose |
| Authors | Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker |
| Related genres | |
| Short Story, Flash Fiction, Drabble, Slice of Life | |
| Related topics | |
| Literature, Novel, Poetry | |
Practicing citations
editA vignette is a small slice of life, capturing a moment in its vivid freshness.[1]
A vignette is kind of like an illustration. It's a short, descriptive passage that's more about evoking meaning through imagery than it is about plot.[2]
Myop’s age and innocence obstruct her from seeing deeply into the full implications of the scene, while the more worldly reader is jarred and confronted with a whole history of racial violence and slavery. [3]
Starting from the early, short, and visually interesting collection of vignettes--the three mountains press in our time of 1923--Hemingway seems to have devised and rejected, various ordering principles for his first sustained work. [4]
What happens though when a reader encounters a work of considerable length made up of individual short pieces or vignettes that include rhythm and rhyme and is framed by an underlying, unifying story line linking the vignettes together? [5]
Answers to Module 7 Questions
edit- This is a photo of a decorative vignette, used to decorate the beginnings of chapters in old books.
- This image is not my own work
- The file format is a ".gif"
- This work is in the public domain
- This image would belong in categories such as literature, vignettes, decorative drawings, artwork
- This file depicts a drawing of a letter with a black box around it and flowers and leaves surrounding it.
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References
edit- ^ Akinci, Ugur (2012). How to Write a Vignette.
- ^ "The House on Mango Street Writing Style | Shmoop". www.shmoop.com. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ Armstrong, John (2016-11-23). "Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction". Text Matters (6): 127–143. doi:10.1515/texmat-2016-0008. ISSN 2084-574X.
- ^ Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught (1998-03-22). "Hemingway's 'In Our Time': A Cubist Anatomy". The Hemingway Review. 17 (2): 31. ISSN 0276-3362.
- ^ Rivera, Haydee (2003-01-01). "Breaking the Rules: Innovation and Narrative Strategies in Sandra Cisneros' the House on Mango Street and Ana Castillo's the Mixquiahuala Letters". Ethnic Studies Review. 26 (1): 108.