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THE MODERN NOVEL - Coggle Diagram
THE MODERN NOVEL
THE NEW ROLE OF THE NOVELIST
gradual transformation of the British society
Novelist: mediator between the unquestioned values of the past and the confused present, highlighting the complexity of the unconscious
shift from the reality to the INDIVIDUAL
Marcel Proust's
A la recherce du temps perdu
Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy
new concept of time
new theory of the unconscious
ORIGINS
bourgeois origins (18th and 19th century)
RECURRING THEME: gain or loss of social status
familiar social pattern to both reader and writer
linear structure, the novelist as a mediator relating events in chronological order
A DIFFERENT USE OF TIME
subjective and internal
no chronological sequence of events
the story might unfold in a single day
Joyce's
Ulysses
Woolf's
Mrs Dalloway
epiphany
the sudden revelation of an interior reality caused by an event of everyday life
NEW NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
rejection of the omniscient narrator
INTERNAL VIEWPOINT
analysis of the character's consciousness
influenced by past experiences
THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
phrase coined by William James to define the continuous flow of thoughts and sensation of the human mind
definition applied by the 20th century critics to the fiction focusing on this inner process
INTERIOR MONOLOGUE: the verbal expression of this psychic phenomenon
GROUPS OF NOVELISTS
EXPERIMENTATORS OF SUBJECTIVE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
ANTI-UTOPIAN / DYSTOPIAN NOVELISTS
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVELISTS
D.H. Lawrence
E.M. Forster
Joseph Conrad