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Example: Prison of Love; Love-Letter Between
Nobleman and His Sister
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The historical novel
Definition: The historical novel is often based on true
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The thesis novel
• It has a particular thesis or argument underlying it.It is typically concerned to encourage social reform,or the correction of a particular abuse or wrong,for example,Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
• 3.The novel is a narrative.( T )
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• 4.The novel does not need to have characters, actions, and plots.( F ) • 5.The novel is much longer in length and more complex in content than prose narrative.( T )
Example: The Stagnant Water in Ripples
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The satirical novel
• It attacks alleged vices and stupidities-either of individuals or of whole communities or groups-and its tools are those of ridicule,exaggeration,and contempt,for example,Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726);Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn(1884);Joseph Heller's Catch 22(1961)
Scarlet Letter
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The regional novel
Definition: The regional novel is to especial describe
the regional culture and life, usually rural rather than urban.
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The faction
• Nonfiction book is the product of on-the-spot report style novels, and also is a fictional narrative literature and fictionalized narrative literature are extended to each other, interface, at the site of the overlapping each other with a special space, nonfiction and initiation of growing up in the empty land, so it possesses the main body of modern documentary article learn character - new} can, authenticity, and contains some of the traditional novel genes.
• Example: Guzman de Alfarache
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The epistolary novel
Definition: The epistolary novel is a novel written as a
series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use.
What is a novel ? What novel have you read?
Definition
• A novel is “a relatively long fictional prose narrative with a more or les complex plot or pattern of events, about human beings, their feelings, thoughts, actions, etc.”
prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventure of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. This style of novel originated in sixteenth century Spain and flourished throughout Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It continues to influence modern literature.
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Features:: fictitious, prose, narrative, characters, actions, plots, long
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The picaresque novel
• Definition: The picaresque novel is a popular sub-genre of
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The sentimental novel
• The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th-century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from sensibility, was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction beginning in the eighteenth century in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age. • eg: Sentimental Journey
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The roman a clef
• It often depicts real people,places or events in disguised form so that once one realize what the work is about the hidden references all become apparent,for example,Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain(1924)
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Novel of the soil
• Novel of the soil on memories restructuring to describe his hometown in rural life with strong agrestic breath and local color novels, is familiar with hometown local conditions and customs of their own, aims to reveal the villages and towns of life's ignorance and backward, and so as to express his nostalgia of the novel. •
facts of history but it may not embody true characters from history, although it can have parts of true characters a Lincoln; The Crucible and The
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The features of a novel
• True or false
• 1.The novel is not fictitious. (F )
• 2.The novel is prose rather than verse though novels can well include very “poetic” elements.( T)
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The educational novel
• It concentrates on one character's development from early youth to some sort of maturity,for example,James Joyce's portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916);Charles Dickens's David Copperfield(1850)
