novel Flashcards
(29 cards)
early precursors of novel
greek romances from 2nd to 6th century
earlier threads of genre
Virgil’s eclogues
Malory’s ‘Morte D’Arthur’
Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The canterbury tales’
First novel
Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s ‘Tale of genji’ 1010
first european novel
‘Don Quixote’ by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes
published in two parts in 1605 and 1615
Pigrim’s progress
John Bunyan (1678)
Oroonoku
Aphra Behn (1688)
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, Mall Flanders
Gulliver’s tales
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Richardson
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
Clarissa
Immigrant authors
Salman Rushdie, VS Naipaul, Kazu Ishigura
Evelina
Frances Burney
Gothic novels
Ann Radcliffe
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Agatha Cristie
Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot
novella origin
italian novelle
eg of novella
- The heart of darkness by joseph conrad
- The turn of the screw by henry james
- Billy Budd by Hermann Melville
- Death in venice by Thoman mann
- Seize the day by saul bellow
- Pearl by john steinbeck
The heart of darkness
by joseph conrad
The turn of the screw
henry james
Billy Budd
Hermann Melville
Death in venice
Thoman mann
Seize the day
saul bellow
elements of novel or novella
6
1. Theme
2. Plot
3. Xharacter
4. Setting
5. Conflict
6. Language/style
what are the major elements affected by seeting
plot and character
types of novel
- Realistic
- Picareque
- Historical
- Epistolary
- Gothic
- Autobiographical
- Allegorical
- Utopian/Dystopian
- Psychological
- Stream of Consciousness
- Bildungsroman