| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, written by Jonathan Safran Foer, is a post-9/11 novel, which causes widespread controversy due to large numbers of images inserted. However, as another medium of narrative besides language, images obviously play the role in constructing the meanings in fiction. Images in the novel present both single image narrative pattern and narrative pattern of a series of images, constituting an organic part of the image narrative. Images and the text are intertextual, and they also form a larger inter-textual relationship with the society and history. So the image narrative has the aesthetic effect and the depth of thought that the literal narrative cannot compare with. More importantly, it becomes the basic language and special way of expression in the post-9/11era. |
