کتاب استادینگ د ناول (STUDYING the NOVEL)

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کتاب استادینگ د ناول (STUDYING the NOVEL An Introduction)

فهرست

1 Introductory Definitions

2 The History of the Novel

3 Types of Nove!

4 The Short Story and the Novelia

5 Realism and Modernism

6 Analysing Fiction

    Narrative technique

Character

    Plot

    Structure

    Setting

    Theme

    Symbol and image

    Speech and dialogue

7 Studying the Novel

    How to make notes

    What to note

    Revision

8 Critical Approaches to Fiction

    Textual approaches

    Generic approaches

    Contextual approaches

    Biographical approaches

    Psychological approaches

   Reader-oriented approaches

    Feminist approaches

Notes

Further Reading

index

اطلاعاتی درباره کتاب استادینگ د ناول (STUDYING the NOVEL An Introduction)

According to the Oxford English dictionary a novel is ‘a ficti tous prose narrative or tale of considerable lengih (now usually one long enough to fill one or more volumes) in which characiers and actions representative of the real lile of past or present times are portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity.’

This may sound a bit like stating the obvious, but there! are some important points contained in this very concise definition.

The novel is fictitious – fiction, as we often refer to it. It! depicts imaginary characters and situations. A novel may include reference to real places, people and events, but it cannot contain only such references and remain a novel. However, even though its characters and actions are imaginary ihey are in some sense representative of real life’ as the dictionary definition has it; although fictional they bear an imporiant resemblance to the real. What exactly this resemblance is has been a matter of much discussion and dispute amongst literary critics, and it is arguable that it varies in kind from novel to novel. But this resemblance to real life is one of the features that distinguishes the novel from other forms such as the epic and the romance, however much we recognize that the term ‘real life’ is a problematic concept that requires careful definition and use.

The novel is in prose rather than verse, although novels can well include very ‘poetic elements so far as their language is concerned. And although it would be a serious mistake to assume that the language of a novel was identical to ordinary Speech or most non-literary writing, nevertheless the fact that the novel is in prose helps to establish that sense of ‘real

کتاب استادینگ د ناول (STUDYING the NOVEL An Introduction)