Genre B: History of the Novel

History of the Novel

Novel

Genre: Fiction, Narrative

Style: Prose

Length: Extended

Purpose: Resembles Truth

Novel is a relatively recent literary creation

Precursors

Heroic Epics: Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Beowulf

Greek + Roman Romances + Novels

Oriental Frame Tales

Irish + Icelandic Sagas

Medieval European Romances

Elizabethan Prose Fiction

Travel Adventures

Novelle

Moral Tales

First Novels

11^th Century Japan: The Tale of Genji

Life of 10th Century Heian Court

16^th Century China: Monkey, Water Margin & Romance of Three Kingdoms

Historical novels written in commoner’s language

17th Century Spain: Don Quixote

First European Novel

Psychology of mid-life crises

1679 France: The Princess of Cleves

First European Historical Novel

First novel of analysis dissecting emotions and attitudes

1683 England: Love Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister

1719 England: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders & A Journal of the Plague Year

1740 England: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Modernism: International Artistic Movement

Radical experimentation and rejection of old order of civilization and 19^소 century optimism

Novels: How things are perceived rather than what is perceived

James Joyce, Dorothy, Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner

Ÿ Post-Modernism: Post 1970’s – contemporary culture, technology, and art

Ÿ Information Technology, electronic images, and popular arts

Ÿ Rejects difficulty of Modernism

Ÿ Fragmentation and incoherence

Emphasis on Reflexivity: Fictions about fiction

Post-colonial literature: encounter of different cultures, world views and perceptions of reality

1) Name 2 antecedents of the novel.

2) What is arguably the first novel? Specify the country and time period

3) Which events or movements influenced a change in the style of novels?

- Miss. Luo

Welcome

Hey guys,

The blog team: DJ PRAM QUEEN, Princess Rochon, Wrestle Mania Sherman, grr.grr.Grace, and almost always awesome gia2hn

SO... basically, this blog will collect all of our work for this English assignment and here are the jobs (we're in charge of the GENRES, PART B on the gr8 website)

1) History of the novel form
2) Origin of the English novel
3) Who reads, and popular fictions
4) Bildungsroman
5) Blog Master (me!)


okay, hopefully we finish everything soon, so we can have the weekend off!

PZ, gia2hn