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The modern novel (322) - Coggle Diagram
The modern novel (322)
origins of English novel
orgins bourgeois + connected to society
18th-19th century
novelist= mediator btw characters-reader
objective way + social pattern
linear structure until 20th century
role of the novelist
from Victorian (comfortable)
to modern novel (inter-war years)
caused by
transformation of British society
moral & psychological uncertainty
mediating btw
solid + unquestioned values of the past
confused present
from Society to INDIVIDUAL
different concept of time + new theory of the unconscious
new narrative techniques
NO omniscent narration
Reality
= dramatic social, political and technological upheavals
from external world
to internal world of a character's mind
consciousness influnced by
simultaneous existence of different levels of consciousness
subcosciousness
past experience is retained
coexistence of the past in the present determines the personality of each human being
different use of time
from subjective and internal
to NO chronological sequence
reveletion of an interior reality caused by trivial elements of everyday life
technique
stream of consciousness
≈
continuous flow of thoughts and sensation in human mind
interior monologue
=
verbal expression of this psychic phenomenon