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Literary Genres: Novel
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Literary Genres: Novel2.
Definition of the novelfrom Italian novella = “tale, piece of news”; term
applied to a variety of writings whose only
common attribute is that they are extended
pieces of prose fiction.
typical criteria of novel:
• artistic merit
• fictionality
• representation of the epic totality of life
• focus on an individual within historical context
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Fictionality and novelstems from the tradition of historical narrative
Novels present counterfactual characters and
episodes, but possibly on historical background.
roman à clef
“roman”
X nouvelle historique
X “novel”
→
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“roman” – le conte roman = a tale composed invernacular, as opposed to Latin
“novel” – a new genre, defined as opposite to
heroic epic
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Novel versus heroic epicchanges in the categories of:
• time
• setting
• characters
realism and the novel form
studies in human memory, causality
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Media context of the novelspread of literacy
silent reading
paper and print
new readership –
new intimacy
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Early antecedentsMurasaki Shikibu: Tales of Genji
Francois Rabelais: Gargantua et
Pantagruel
Marie de Lafayette: La Princesse de
Clèves
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The first modern novelsMiguel de Cervantes: Don Quijote
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe