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THE NOVEL

a lengthy fictional narrative, written in prose, presenting a realistic picture of believable characters and events.

THE LONGEST NOVELS

Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady Samuel Richardson 984,870 words 1534 pages

ORAL TRADITION

concerned with social mores • gives insight in the life at a particular time • may contain elements of myth and legend; serve didactic or explanatory fuctions

NOVEL - NOVELLA - Decameron, Bocchaccio

introduces new subjects, rather than utilize stock patterns and known stories • assumes action-oriented narration, a swift succession of events

ROMAN - CHIVALRIC ROMANCE - Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

attempts at the faithful portrait of man and his existence in the world, rather than at a minute representation of the world • may contain the elements of supernatural • symbolic

THE FIRST NOVELS

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL

1. Early novel. (16th/17th centuries) •Picaresque: episodic adventure stories •Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

2. The emergence of modern novel. (18th century) •Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe •Samuel Richardson: Pamela, Clarissa •Gothic novel: Horace Walpole •Sentimental novel: J.J. Rousseau, Julie, or the New Héloïse

3. The age of novel. (19th century) •Realism (Balzac) and naturalism (Zola) •Novel of manners: Jane Austen, Gustav Flaubert •Historical (chronicle) novel: Sir Walter Scott, Balzac, Tolstoy •Psychological novel: Thomas Hardy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4. Experiments and post-modern novel. (20th century) •Experiments: James Joyce, roman nouveau (new novel) •Magic realism: Gabriel García Márquez

5. The novel in the Google era. (21st century) •Graphic and hybrid novel •Micronovel, twitterature: Nick Douglas, Twitter Wit •Convergent novel •Google novel: Stieg Larsson, Millenium

THE GENRES OF THE NOVEL

Adventure novel, maritime fiction, e.g., Moby Dick

detective story (crime fiction), e.g., My Name Is Red

war novel, spy fiction, e.g., Erich Maria Remarque, Ian Fleming

thriller, e.g., Graham Greene

horror (gothic), e.g., frankenstein by mary shelley

romance, e.g., Nathaniel Hawthorne scarlet letter

chick lit, e.g., Bridget Jones Diary

the novel of manners, e.g., Jane Austen

•historical novel, e.g., Walter Scott

•psychological novel, e.g., Fyodor Dostoevsky crime and punishment

•children/young adult novel, e.g., cs lewis the lion the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Hunger Games

•fantasy novel, e.g., J.R.R. Tolkien

•science fiction novel, e.g., Stanisław Lem