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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:34:01 -0600
It's been interesting to read all the discussion on the definition of nonlinear. To my mind, the book that most qualifies as truly non-linear is an older title, "The Red Shift" by Alan Garner which was published back in 1973. It was an experimental young adult novel in which the author attempted to define narrative time and space according to the laws of quantum physics, rather than Newtonian physics. Consequently, the book has three different storylines, taking place in three different time periods but occurring simultaneously. (That's the best way I can describe it; it doesn't really make easy sense due to its non-linearity.)
I must confess that the first time I read the book, I had absolutely no idea what was happening at all and it wasn't until my third reading that I finally "got it" (I think). Has anyone else read "The Red Shift?" What did you make of it? Does anyone know a teenager who has read it? Maybe the next generation of non-linear thinkers will finally be able to get it the first time.
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I deliberately did not define or narrow the scope of the term
"nonlinear" at the beginning of the month, because it was a no-brainer to observe that there is more than one definition. You're doing a great job of defining it, using examples, as Kathy Isaacs does in her teaching with kids.
I made the reference to Holes without going back to check earlier messages, because I had the impression that someone else had already referred to the novel Holes. Regardless of whether or not you agree, my recent comment seems to have stimulated some fine observations about this outstanding book.
On November 1 we'll begin our next discussion. If you have announcments of interest to the CCBC-Net community, please make them on 10/31 or 11/1. This is the "announcement time" for this particular discussion community.
Any last thoughts? definitions? examples? ... Ginny
************************************************************ Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Fri 30 Oct 1998 01:34:01 PM CST
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:34:01 -0600
It's been interesting to read all the discussion on the definition of nonlinear. To my mind, the book that most qualifies as truly non-linear is an older title, "The Red Shift" by Alan Garner which was published back in 1973. It was an experimental young adult novel in which the author attempted to define narrative time and space according to the laws of quantum physics, rather than Newtonian physics. Consequently, the book has three different storylines, taking place in three different time periods but occurring simultaneously. (That's the best way I can describe it; it doesn't really make easy sense due to its non-linearity.)
I must confess that the first time I read the book, I had absolutely no idea what was happening at all and it wasn't until my third reading that I finally "got it" (I think). Has anyone else read "The Red Shift?" What did you make of it? Does anyone know a teenager who has read it? Maybe the next generation of non-linear thinkers will finally be able to get it the first time.
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I deliberately did not define or narrow the scope of the term
"nonlinear" at the beginning of the month, because it was a no-brainer to observe that there is more than one definition. You're doing a great job of defining it, using examples, as Kathy Isaacs does in her teaching with kids.
I made the reference to Holes without going back to check earlier messages, because I had the impression that someone else had already referred to the novel Holes. Regardless of whether or not you agree, my recent comment seems to have stimulated some fine observations about this outstanding book.
On November 1 we'll begin our next discussion. If you have announcments of interest to the CCBC-Net community, please make them on 10/31 or 11/1. This is the "announcement time" for this particular discussion community.
Any last thoughts? definitions? examples? ... Ginny
************************************************************ Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Fri 30 Oct 1998 01:34:01 PM CST
