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The rise of the novel 3 - Coggle Diagram
The rise of the novel 3
THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE
third-person narrator, who was omniscient and never abandoned his characters
first-person narrator is also the main charachter
The writer was omnipresent.
chronological sequence generally adopted
Characters rooted in a temporal dimension
references to particolar times of the year
THE SETTING
time and place were considered two different aspects of the same reality
specific references to names of streets and towns
Great attention was paid to the setting
detailed descriptions to make more realistic
TYPES OF NOVELS
epistolary novel
told by letters exchanged between different characters
Pamela
picaresque novel
adventures of a young hero
Tom Jones
utopian novel
imaginary nations with strange new societies
Gulliver’s Travels
realistic novel
focuses on realistic description
Robinson Crusoe
anti-novel
shows that the orderly narratives of events have little relation to the disorder of the human mind
Tristram Shandy