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Novel as a Genre
history of and genres of the novel
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Literature
Undergraduate 4
11/30/2011

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Novel (6)
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narrative, extension, depth, development of characters, episodic, recounts a series of events linked by a protagonist
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Narrative (2)
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story and narrator
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origin of novel
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myth
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novel as a genre (date)
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18th century
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episodic
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divided by chapters
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Two types of novels
Definition
fiction (imagination)
non-fiction
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examples of fiction (5)
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Robinson Crusoe
Ulysses
100 Years of Solitude
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Example of non-fiction novel
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
1966
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Francois Rabelais
1535
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Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Miguel de Cervantes
1605
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Robinson Crusoe
Definition
Daniel Defoe
1719
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Ulysses
Definition
James Joyce
1918
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
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Background of novel as a genre (4)
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Classical times --> Greek Romances --> Medieval romances --> Renaissance Romances
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Background of Novel as a Genre (5 elements)
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length, adventure, quests, chivalry, fantastic and supernatural elements
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classical times (3)
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epics, written in verse, features a single protagonist
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Greek Romances
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2nd Century A.D.
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Novella (3)
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news
50 - 150 pages
originated in Italy and France
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Italian Novella (3)
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realistic narration, sometimes ribald, often containing sexual taboos
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examples of novellas (2)
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The Decameron by Giovanni Bocaccio (1353)
The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre (1548, France)
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Modern Novel (7)
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prose
episodic
more solidity in characters than the novella
motivations, development, and psychology of characters solidified
narrator participates in the story
epistolary or adventurous
purpose: entertain and instruct
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modern novel examples (2)
Definition
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Moll Flanders (1722)
both by Daniel Defoe
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types of novels (1700 - 1800) (4)
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Picaresque
Bildungsroman
sentimental novel
Gothic novel
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picaresque (expl. and ex.)
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morally imperfect heroes
Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)
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Bildungsroman (expl. and ex.)
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psychology and spiritual nature of character shown from childhood to adulthood; coming-of-age story
The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister by Goethe (1795)
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Sentimental Novel (expl. and ex.)
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exalts positive emotions (generosity, sympathy, etc) and their expression as the most reliable marks of human nature
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne (1768)
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Gothic novel (expl. and 3 ex.)
Definition
exalts expression of negative emotions (fear, horror, etc)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
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two categories of narrative prose
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Realistic novel
Romance novel
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Realistic Novel (2 expl. and 4 ex.)
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versimilitud (close to reality / believable), plausible stories
Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoyevski, Henry James
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Romance Novel (3 expl. and 4 ex.)
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adventure, action, heroes and villains are larger-than-life
Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Count of Monte Cristo
Moby Dick
Tess D'Ubervilles
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Two Types of Novels (20th Century)
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modernist
postmodernist
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modernist (7)
Definition
ignores conventions in form and outlook
memory and dreams important subjects
radical experimentations with style, structure, and subject matter
alienation
chronological discontinuity
stream of consciousness
myth
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modernist examples (4)
Definition
In Search of Times Past by Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Virginia Woolf
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Stream of Consciousness (2)
Definition
Clarice Lispector
Hemingway
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myth (expl. and ex.)
Definition
used to reveal disturbed psychological conditions in characters
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1913)
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Postmodernism (2 expl. and 3 types)
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more radical experimentation in form and outlook
allusions and symbols
Surrealism, magical realism, noveau roman
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Two Postmodernism examples
Definition
Borges
La Disparition by Georges Perec (omits "e" in French)
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noveau roman / new novel
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Butor
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surrealism
Definition
Borges
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Magical Realism (3 expl. and 1 ex.)
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magic is a part of the natural world
magic and reality intermingle
nature is important
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 years of solitude
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Borges (9)
Definition
is NOT magical realism, but rather surrealist (subconscious vs. nature)
dreams, memories, death, labyrinth, religion, mythology, symbols, classics (Odyssey)
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