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THE MODERN NOVEL - Coggle Diagram
THE MODERN NOVEL
INTERIOR MONOLOGUE AND MAIN FEATURES
Its immediacy; this distinguishes it both from the soliloquy and from the dramatic monologue, where conventional syntax is respected.
Absence of introductory expressions like ‘he thought, he remembered, he said’.
The presence of two levels of narration: one external to the character’s mind, the other internal.
MAIN FEAUTURES
The lack of chronological order
Use of subjective time
the absence of the rules of punctuation
The lack of formal logical order
the author is present within the narration
the character stays fixed in space while his/her consciousness moves freely in time
everything happens in the present in the character’s mind.
ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
has it's origin in the bourgeois class
main theme are gain or loss of social status
the novelist a mediator between his characters and the reader
cronological order
BIRTH OF MODERN NOVEL
rejected omniscent narrator
new methods to portray self consciousness
impossible to reproduce the complexity of human mind using traditional techniques
NEW CONCEPT OF TIME
perceived as subjective and inner
no chronological sequence of events
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
term introduced by William james
continous flow of thoughts an sensations that characterise the human mind