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| narrative, extension, depth, development of characters, episodic, recounts a series of events linked by a protagonist |
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fiction (imagination)
non-fiction |
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Robinson Crusoe
Ulysses
100 Years of Solitude |
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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| Background of novel as a genre (4) |
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| Classical times --> Greek Romances --> Medieval romances --> Renaissance Romances |
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| Background of Novel as a Genre (5 elements) |
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| length, adventure, quests, chivalry, fantastic and supernatural elements |
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| epics, written in verse, features a single protagonist |
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news
50 - 150 pages
originated in Italy and France |
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| realistic narration, sometimes ribald, often containing sexual taboos |
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The Decameron by Giovanni Bocaccio (1353)
The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre (1548, France) |
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prose
episodic
more solidity in characters than the novella
motivations, development, and psychology of characters solidified
narrator participates in the story
epistolary or adventurous
purpose: entertain and instruct |
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| modern novel examples (2) |
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Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Moll Flanders (1722)
both by Daniel Defoe |
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| types of novels (1700 - 1800) (4) |
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Picaresque
Bildungsroman
sentimental novel
Gothic novel |
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| picaresque (expl. and ex.) |
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morally imperfect heroes
Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) |
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| Bildungsroman (expl. and ex.) |
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psychology and spiritual nature of character shown from childhood to adulthood; coming-of-age story
The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister by Goethe (1795) |
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| Sentimental Novel (expl. and ex.) |
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exalts positive emotions (generosity, sympathy, etc) and their expression as the most reliable marks of human nature
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne (1768) |
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| Gothic novel (expl. and 3 ex.) |
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exalts expression of negative emotions (fear, horror, etc)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) |
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| two categories of narrative prose |
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Realistic novel
Romance novel |
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| Realistic Novel (2 expl. and 4 ex.) |
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versimilitud (close to reality / believable), plausible stories
Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoyevski, Henry James |
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| Romance Novel (3 expl. and 4 ex.) |
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adventure, action, heroes and villains are larger-than-life
Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Count of Monte Cristo
Moby Dick
Tess D'Ubervilles |
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| Two Types of Novels (20th Century) |
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ignores conventions in form and outlook
memory and dreams important subjects
radical experimentations with style, structure, and subject matter
alienation
chronological discontinuity
stream of consciousness
myth |
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In Search of Times Past by Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Virginia Woolf |
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| Stream of Consciousness (2) |
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Clarice Lispector
Hemingway |
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used to reveal disturbed psychological conditions in characters
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1913) |
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| Postmodernism (2 expl. and 3 types) |
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more radical experimentation in form and outlook
allusions and symbols
Surrealism, magical realism, noveau roman |
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| Two Postmodernism examples |
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Borges
La Disparition by Georges Perec (omits "e" in French) |
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| Magical Realism (3 expl. and 1 ex.) |
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magic is a part of the natural world
magic and reality intermingle
nature is important
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 years of solitude |
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is NOT magical realism, but rather surrealist (subconscious vs. nature)
dreams, memories, death, labyrinth, religion, mythology, symbols, classics (Odyssey) |
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