ASPECTS OF A NOVEL by Prof. Raj Kumar Verma Professor‚ Department of English Sri Aurobindo College University of Delhi Today we are here to discuss to know and to analyse how to read a novel. Reading of a novel is an activity which as readers of literature which as readers of story. All of us who have some degree of education are quite familiar with and yet despite that familiarity despite having read quite a few novels for entertainment for knowledge purpose or simply for the sake of passing
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POSSIBLE ESSAY ANSWERS “I have not known a days peace and contentment in my life.” Discuss this statement in light of the various internal conflicts faced by Makhaya in the novel. Support your ideas with details from the novel. In the novel When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head‚ we are a spectator to trials and tribulations of Makhaya‚ the protagonist. While many of these trials are external‚ they also impact on his state of mind and on his emotional detachment. As an individual‚ Makhaya
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THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in
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ITL –NOVEL SELECTED TYPES Romantic – This form of novel goes beyond ordinary experience and social predicaments into make-believe. Something new is being searched for in an alternative world beyond familiar circumstances so that the novel’s purpose is a moral or ideal issue. Nevertheless‚ the transportation to some idealized world‚ or going on a somewhat fantastic journey‚ can lead to disappointment‚ and its moral outcome. The characters’ ideals can be crushed. The fantastical journey can be a big
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GOTHIC NOVEL The word "Gothic" has ben variously defined and interpreteted by various writer. Leslie Fielder says that Gothic shoddy mystery-mongerine‚ whereas F. Gunworth Fields defines the Gothic tradition‚ as a literary exploration of avenues to death. The editions of "The Reader’s Companion to World Literature" consider the Gothic novel as a novel of horror based on supernatural. Montague summers maintains; Gothic was the essence of romanticism‚ and romanticism was the literary expression
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what job you have for a living; what type of class family you come from whether that would be upper or lower class. These timeless novels show how culture affected society too‚ considering whom they talked to‚ how they talked‚ where they stayed compared to a lower class persons culture. An example of a classic book is ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte. This novel shows how culture affects society and how we act and think. It affects society and culture because Catherine knows she cannot get married
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Monday‚ December 27‚ 2010 Reasons for the Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century Introduction: The most important gifts of the eighteenth century to English literature are the periodical essay and the novel‚ neither of which had any classical precedent. Both of them were prose forms and eminently suited to the genius of eighteenth-century English men and women. The periodical essayist and the novelist were both exponents of the same sensibility and culture‚ and worked on the same intellectual
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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Graphic Novels: Literature without Text? Jan Baetens Literary graphic novels: adaptation‚ illustration‚ collaboration‚ and beyond More and more‚ the hype surrounding the graphic novel concerns its literary qualities. Many graphic novels appear to have a literary subtext (in the case of adaptations) or present themselves‚ in a more radical form‚ as the visual development of a literary text that is completely reproduced within the graphic novel. In the former case‚ the literary graphic novel
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Graphic Novel Subject Guide 1 Graphic Novels Subject Guide Spring 2010 – Nova Scotia Public Libraries The Misunderstood Medium It is important to understand that the terms “comics” and “graphic novels” describe a medium rather than a genre. The difference is that a genre is a type of story‚ with certain rules that it must follow in order to fit into that genre. “Westerns‚” “mysteries‚” “romances” are examples of genre. A medium is a form of expression like movies‚ novels or poetry. Essentially
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