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SHORT STORIES vs NOVELS, PLOT, Characters, Setting, Structure, DIFFERENCES…
SHORT STORIES vs NOVELS
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Types of novel
The historical novel 19th C. W. Scott. takes its setting and some characters and events from history, (historical events - crucial for the central characters and narrative.)
20th Documentary fiction:
incorporates historical characters and
events and reports of everyday events in contemporary newspapers.
Nonfiction:
Techniques deviations from the temporal sequence of events and descriptions of a participant's state of mind, based on historical records and on personal interviews with the chief agents.(Capote) Literature of fact (McPhee)
Fabulative historical:
Interweaves history with fantasized, even fantastic events.
Documentary drama/fiction theater, film, and television, which combines fiction with history, journalistic reports, and biography.
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Novel of character or "psychological novel,
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Realistic novel fictional attempt to give the effect of realism, by representing complex characters with mixed motives. Focuses on the customs, conversation, and ways of thinking and valuing of a particular social class, it is often called a novel of manners..18th C
Prose romance
The adventure novel masculine adventures in the newly colonized non-European world. (early prototype , R. Crusoe)
"Novel of formation" or "Novel of education." the development of the protagonist's mind and character, in the passage from childhood into maturity.Ex. s Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) / "Artist-novel"the growth of a novelist /artist
Social novel: emphasizes the influence of the social and economic conditions of an era on shaping characters and determining events.
Regional novel:emphasizes the setting, speech, and social structure and customs of a particular locality
Involuted novels: (experimentation, Vladimir Nabokov) new era..sometimes called antinovel deletion of standard elements, on violating traditional norms
Magic realism: to a school of painters, is used to describe the prose fiction of Borges, Allende, Marquez. Interweaves sharply etched realism in representing ordinary events and descriptive details together with fantastic and dreamlike elements, as well as with materials derived from myth and fairy tales.(Metafiction/surfiction)
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Predecessors:: long narrative romances (II and III Century Greek), picaresque narrative (16th century Spain) realistic in manner, episodic narrative realistic in structure, sequence of events held together largely because they happened to one person.) Character (a brief sketch of a typical personality or way of life) 7th C.
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Predecessors:
The fable, the exemplum,the folktale, the fabliau,and the parable,
the prose tale (Poe) Frame stories? (Chaucer)
Prose narratives
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PLOT
Focused on the series of events and actions ordered by the narrative. It generally has a single major plot and often a group of minor subplots
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Point of attack: The author often begins the
story close to, or even on the verge of, the climax
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Structure
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HIGHLY STRUCTURED: concise, tight form
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PUBLICATION
CONTEXT
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Politextual publication mode:
Magazines, newspapers, collections, anthologies
Similarities
Plot
may be comic, tragic, romantic, or satiric;
one of many available points of view;
it may be written in the mode of fantasy, realism, or naturalism.
organizes the action, thought, and dialogue
of its characters into the artful pattern of a plot
Type of story (tale)
story of incident:the greater interest is in what the protagonist will do next and on how the story will turn out. Focus on the course
and outcome of the events
Story of character: Focus on the state of mind and motivation, or on the psychological and moral qualities, of the protagonists.
Magnitude:
Imposes differences in both the effects
that the story can achieve and in the choice,
elaboration, and management of the elements to achieve those effects
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