Compare new instances of the literary hybrid with a range of work: the sampling in rap music, the assemblages of Picasso and Braque, the documentary film which mixes factual reporting with recreated scenes, the move from inner to outer consciousness in Virginia Woolf's novels, the fragmentary and self-effacing texts of Roland Barthes, the multimedia texture of a Web page, the musical collages of Charles Ives and Michael Daugherty, the broken narrative structures of movies like Pulp Fiction and Magnolia, the evanescent neon aphorisms of Jenny Holzer, the media commentaries of Marshall McLuhan, the six different actor-embodied Bob Dylans of I'm Not There, and the anyone-can-do-it video mashups on YouTube—all these artistic and commercial creations, each blending and fragmenting their content, prevail now in our culture as expressive models of the hybrid form.
I've been searching out critical/craft essays on multiple and conflicting narratives lately to help inform the essay I'm working on, and I came across this great lecture piece from Larson. It was a much-needed refocusing read.
I've also been searching for good examples of conflicting or multiple narratives (mostly within the same character/headspace) in creative nonfiction books and essays, so if you know of one, shout it out, will ya?
