CONCEPT OF NOVEL
A novel is a long narrative,
normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a
sequential story. While Ian Watt in The Rise of the Novel
(1957) suggests that the novel came into being in the early 18th century, the genre
has also been described as "a continuous and comprehensive history of
about two thousand years",[1] with historical roots in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and in the
tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in
the 18th century. Miguel de Cervantes,
author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as
the first significant European novelist of the modern era; the first part of Don Quixote was published
in 1605.[2]
While a more precise definition of the
genre is difficult, the main elements that critics discuss are: how the
narrative, and especially the plot, is constructed; the themes, settings, and characterization; how
language is used; and the way that plot, character, and setting relate to reality.
The romance is a related long prose
narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a
fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon
marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events
are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of
society".[3]
However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,[4]
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights[5] and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick,[6]
are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a
"kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with
the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish
between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il
romanzo.
A novel is a long, fictional narrative
which describes intimate human experiences. The novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style, and
the development of the prose novel at this time was encouraged by innovations
in printing, and the introduction of cheap paper,
in the 15th century.
The present English (and Spanish) word
for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news",
or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin
novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus,
diminutive of novus, meaning "new".[note 1]
Most European languages have preserved the term "romance" (as in
French, Dutch, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Romanian, Danish, Swedish
and Norwegian "roman"; German "Roman"; Portuguese
"romance" and Italian "romanzo") for extended narratives.
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