Different kinds of novel and its difference with other genre
Uploaded by Hamed Jamalpour on Feb 15, 2009
Different kinds of novel and its difference with other genres.
Hamed Jamal pour
English Literature (M.A)
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One of the prominent critics of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and awarded two PhD admissions from Berkeley University of California And Tokyo University of Japan in 2006 and 2008 who has got lots of studies on history and literature
Novel :is a fictious prose narative or tale of considerable length.
Narativ telling story,but drama : acting
Prose : written distinguish novel from poetry.
Fictious :distinguish novel for science , reality.
Length :distinguish novel for short story
Novel :focus on character representive of real life, real life distinguish it from Epic poem.
Past , present ,future,Epic is a long past ,but novel is in three times(p,p,f)
Plot :how events are related (sequence of events).
Complexity and plot :both tale& fable.
Novel emerged in England in 18th century , Spain 17thC,by Cervantes:don Quixote,(parody of romance).
He imitate Roman but change it to fun.
Four great of romance:1-tale2-romance3-epic4-novel.
Why novel emerged on 18thC? 1- printing machin invented. 2-the literated people increased.
3-writing become a profession.
Novel :small new thing(meaning) new genre.
Tale ,focus of tale is upon events.
Novel :focus of novel is upon characters .
Tale :simple narrative ,more general than short story, short story follow technical pattern ,while tale doesn't
Tale is sweet to tell it has variety of fiction,tale set forth strange and wonderful events rather than focusin on character.
Epic :a long narrative poem .the world of epic is the national heroic past, but the world of novel,usually is limited to a place and it is about present real life.Epic is about heroic figures but in novel Ch,are reland individual.Epic has a allegorical dimension and cosmic .novel has individualistic historical or realistic tendencies.
The setting of Epic is vast,actions usually involves a battle or dangerous jurney and sth divine beings participated in actions,so influence the out come of events.
Romance :developed in 12th c in france characters are idealized royalist knights ,superem passion ,time is past,novel is picture of life .in R,characters are super natural.novel is every day life.
Romance's behavior is formal and sophisticated,increadible adventures.
Epic and Romance :escope of epic is greater than R.epic has more actions.romance's characters are more detailed.
Goethic novel :gloomy medieval setting,time is past,places in dark ancient castles with secret room and passages.(sinister noble man who is teaches by a guilty secret).
Picaresque novel :is formless novel.it has loose construction,it narrated the adventures of a rouge or ocial out cast who moves from place to place and has a lot of adventures ,although...