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the ancestors of novels
Defoe and richardson were credited to be some of the first authors of novels. Defoe and Richardson were the first great writers in our literature. established the novel's claim as an authentic account of the actual experience of individuals. -
The First REAL Novel
The novel is often said to have emerged with the appearance of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). classed as a picaresque story. means the novel is a sequence of episodes held together largely because they happen to one person. Defoe's characters are truly convincing and set in so solid and specific a world that Defoe is often credited with being the first writer of "realistic" fiction. -
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From a piece of paper to a powerful motivation to the working class
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The First (other) REAL Novel
Moll Flanders (1722) is a another picaresque stories the central character in both Crusoe and moll is so convincing and set in so solid and specific a world that Defoe is often credited with being the first writer of "realistic" fiction. -
Pamela
The first "novel of character" or psychological novel is Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740-41), an epistolary novel (or novel in which the narrative is conveyed entirely by an exchange of letters). -
Clarrissa
Clarissa (1747-48) is a work characterized by the careful plotting of emotional states. Even more significant in this vein of Richardson's masterpiece -
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Victorian sponge
during the Victorian period, the novel, the novel replaced poetry and drama, and became the most popular of literary forms.
represents the lives of the majority of people.it expanded to include characters and stories about the middle and working classes. -
William Makepeace Thackeray
often told his stories through an omniscient narrator, who is aware of all the events and the motivations of all the characters of the novel. Through this technique the writer can reveal the thoughts of any character without explaining how this information is obtained. famous for vanity fair -
The stanley parable
As the novel evolved, the novel expanded in terms of its form. Writers began to experiment with different modes of presentation. Central to experimentation was the role of the narrator. In a given novel, who talks to the reader? From whose point of view is the story told? Is the narrator identifiable with the author? Is the narrator a character in the story or another character who simply observes the actions of others in the story? Is the narrator reliable--can you believe him or her? -
the stanley parable (cont.)
Or is he or she unreliable, unable to convey the story without distortion? How does the device of the narrator "frame" the story? How does the reader determine what the truth is about the events reported? -
Today
The novel continues in its popularity to this day. It has moved away from a primarily realistic focus and has evolved into the expansive form that incorporates all other fictional modes. Today, for example, there are many types of novels.There is the allegorical novel, which uses character, place, and event to represent abstract ideas and to demonstrate some thesis. The science fiction novel relies on scientific or pseudo-scientific machinery to create a future society that parallels our own. -
....books are about...
historical novel is set in the past and takes its characters and events from history. The social novel is concerned with the influence of societal institutions and of economic and social conditions on characters and events. These three types, the science fiction, social, and historical novel, tend to be didactic, to instruct readers in the necessity for changing their morality, their lives, and the institutions of society. -
the man who built the river
Henry James, who began writing in the last third of the nineteenth century, used the technique of point-of-view narration so completely that the minds of his characters became the real basis of interest of the novel. In such works, our knowledge of events and characters is itself limited by the limitations of this character or central consciousness. -
in the space of a day
Virginia Woolf, famous for Mrs Dalloway used the technique of point-of-view narration so completely that the minds of his characters became the real basis of interest of the novel. this later became known as the stream of consciousness
