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The Modern Novel (The english novel was essentially (bourgeois in its…
The Modern Novel
The english novel was essentially
bourgeois in its origin
novelist had to mediate between his characters and the reader
Naturalism brought nothing new from
this point of view and the
stucture of the novel remained basicslly
unaltered till the second decade of the
20th century
This change was characterised by a
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It is possible to distinguish at least
three groups of novelist
the first group consists of the
pschological novelists
the most important are
D.H. Lawrence
E.M. Forster
Jodeph Conrad
The second group includes the
Modernist novelist
virginia Woolf
James Joyce
The social and political problemes
of thr Thirties forced the writers' attention
back to the society around them
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
This new realism influenced by French
and Russian writers
Marcel Proust
tended to shift
from society to man, regarded
as a limited creature whose moral progress
was dramatically inferior to his advance
in technology
Dostevsky
Turgenev
Tolstoy
Two other factors contributed to
producing the moderm novel
the new concept of time and
the new theory of
the unconscious
deriving from the Freudian influnce
The stream of consciousness technique
or the interior monologue was introduced
to reproduce the uninterrupted flow of
in a flux of words ideas and
images quite similar the mind's activity
thoughts
sensations
memories
associations
and emotions