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	Novel - MSN Encarta
		Experimental novels can be challenging to read because they represent reality in unusual ways, but they also demonstrate one of the novel’s greatest strengths—its ability to encompass an almost endless variety of approaches.
		These moments are triggered by the most ordinary everyday events—the uneven footing of a curbstone or, in the novel's most famous such moment, the taste of a madeleine (little cake) when dipped in tea, a taste that evokes for the narrator his childhood in the town of Combray.
		The novel is experimental in that it is not a tale of identifying the killers—they have openly announced their intentions—but is instead a description of how and why the bystanders and participants handle their parts in the crime.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560384_8/Novel.html (2291 words)

	Novel and History in Anti-Jacobin Satire. - Yearbook of English Studies \| Encyclopedia.com
		In fact, Jane Austen used the novel as a vehicle to ridicule the radical rejection of domestic...
		In the bowels of the novel: The exchange of fluids in the Beau Monde
		Amelia Opie's 'Adeline Mowbray': diverting the libertine gaze; or, the vindication of a fallen woman.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-88684897.html (496 words)

	The Novel and the Case History
		The case history, although largely unacknowledged by criticism on the early novel, provides a compelling example of a developing narrative model, one which illustrates the importance of rhetorical strategies in constructing disciplinarity as difference.
		Like the novel, the case history traces a path from the unabashedly "curious" sensibility of the eighteenth-century case history, through the realism of the clinical era, dedicated to the precise rendition of surfaces, and finally blossoms inward with Freud.
		And like the novel, the case history demonstrates two disjunct strands in its realist and romantic discursive traditions, the second of which it represses during much of the nineteenth century.
	english3.fsu.edu /~mkennedy/novelstmt.htm (586 words)

	Michael Lewis \| Transformative Environmental History \| Environmental History, 10.1 \| The History Cooperative
		Environmental history has professionalized—we have a thriving journal, vibrant annual conferences (with a somewhat predictable range of panel themes), an ALCS-recognized professional society, and tenure-track positions devoted to environmental history at a growing number of universities.
		This is particularly relevant for environmental history, where so many of the processes and trends that we study have been exported throughout the globe in the twentieth century as development and modernization, and given that American individuals, corporations, and ideas have played key roles in transforming such a varied range of places in the world.
		Environmental history is now mature enough as a field that we have dozens upon dozens of local case histories, as dissertations and monographs.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/eh/10.1/lewis.html (993 words)

	History of the Novel
		Thus, the modern novel is rooted in two traditions, the mimetic and the fantastic, or the realistic and the romantic.
		These novels are not only masterpieces of realism but also—in their carefully crafted form, experimental point of view, and superb style—supreme examples of the novel as a literary genre.
		Typically, the novel was the story of the education, in the broadest sense, of a protagonist.
	homepage.mac.com /jkanach3/Novel_notebook/pages/22.html (3687 words)

	History on a Magic Carpet - a review of Sinai Tapestry by Anthony Heilbut
		When early in this novel, the ur-Bible, the source of Western myth, is discovered, its message is that "All prophecies were really histories misplaced by tricks of time…memories in disguise".
		In his first novel Quin's Shanghai Circus, Whittemore explored the Orient as he now does the Middle East and both novels' happiest (perhaps only happy) vision is me of a great "unbroken sensual wheel made up of many sexes and ages revolving through time." The permutations and combinations of polymorphous perversity might appear trivial.
		Every form of historical explanation the novel proffers is challenged, interrogated and discarded The eponymous Sinai tapestry is the original manuscript of the Bible.
	www.jerusalemdreaming.info /articles/press/heilbut.htm (1199 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| The Arabic novel: a history and a guide
		In presenting its history, he offers a clearly written account of trends and authors across the Arab world, and though he does not assume any prior knowledge of Arabic literature on the part of his readers it is hard to believe that even those familiar with this material will not gain from reading Hassan's treatment.
		This novel, published in 1914, has often been seen as "the first true Arabic novel", and Hassan well describes its combination of romantic protest against social pressures, derived, he believes, from Rousseau, and its introduction of broader social concerns into prose fiction, including issues of class structure and village life.
		For Hassan, the Arabic novel seems necessarily to be written in Arabic, but clinging tightly to this definition has meant that important novelists in the Maghreb who did not and do not write in Arabic have been excluded from consideration, which is a pity because of the distortions this can introduce.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/798/cu5.htm (1573 words)

	Jouvert 6.3: Andrew Armstrong, "Bloody History!"
		There is a history of imaginary geographies which cast minorities, 'imperfect' people, and a list of others who are seen to pose a threat to the dominant group in society as polluting bodies or folk devils who are then located 'elsewhere'.
		In this context the novels are palimpsestual as they construct historical events which are interrelated to 'all other events, prior or contemporaneous.' My use of the palimpsest therefore does not include the act of total erasure or effacing, since the 'original' text is never completely rubbed out.
		History in Phillips's novel, then, is read as "a chronology of recurrence" of the nightmare of the West's repetitive slaughter -- where "the inevitable rehearsal of arguments and bloody conflicts" over six centuries are written (DeCoste 774, 772).
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/v613/armstr.htm (6053 words)

	Just the Facts, Ma’am: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
		History, the empirical sort based on archival research and practiced in universities, anyway, was born at much the same time.
		Among the ancients, history was a literary art, as John Burrow illustrates in his fascinating compendium “A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century” (Knopf; $35).
		The eighteenth century’s fictive history (not to be confused with what we call “historical fiction”;) is the history of private life; the history of what passes in a man’s own mind; true to the Book of Nature; and written in plain, simple style, exhibiting both judgment and invention.
	www.newyorker.com /arts/critics/atlarge/2008/03/24/080324crat_atlarge_lepore (2773 words)

	81.ch.10: Using Historical Fiction in the History Classroom
		He feels that the historical novel is an important genre of literature because an awareness of the past can help the general reader confront the fear and perplexities of the present and future.
		If a historical novel can inspire these kinds of learning experiences, then students can understand the importance of studying history as a means to understanding themselves, understanding their place in the world, and understanding their role as a part of humanity.
		If a particular historical event is described in a novel and they perceive that event as a problem that still exists in the present as well as the future, they might begin to comprehend the significance of the study of history.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/cthistory/81.ch.10.x.html (4774 words)

	History, Humanity, and History
		Swift presents history as intricately involved with one's family's past, since the generations of people who have preceded you have some effect on your present life.
		Although Swift and Rushdie place themselves differently within their novels, since Rushdie is the only one who assumes the role of the narrator, they still arrive at the same reference to colonization.
		The metadiscourse in both novels, by means of their examples of colonization, shows the inextricable role that the past plays in the present.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/uk/gswift/litrel/wlshame4.html (997 words)

	Bangladeshinovels.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The historical novels of Satyen Sen are Obhisopto Nogori (The Cursed City, 1967), Paper Sontan (The Sinned Children, 1969), Vidrohi Kaivarto (The Rebellious Kaivartos, 1969), Purushamedh (Man-Offering, 1969), Alberuni (1969) Kumarajiva (1969) and Oporajeo (The Unbeaten, 1970).
		Two novels of Satyen Sen took the ancient Jerujalem as their centre: Obhisopto Nogori and Paper Sontan and the later may be considered as the sequel to Obhisopto Nogori.
		History says when the Arab General Kubeita-bin-Muslim occupied Khorezom, he killed the writers, teachers and liguists of Khorezom language, and burning all books written in that language he wanted to stop its practice only for the sake of Arabic.
	www.bangladeshinovels.com /Satyen_Sen.html (2078 words)

	Are popular histories vapid? - By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine
		In short, professional historians select their areas of research not by looking at history but by surveying the historiography—the ongoing debates among scholars about what are often highly refined or technical points of a subject—and then staking out a new sliver of the established academic terrain.
		The Barnes and Noble historian seems to treat history as a pageant of larger-than-life events and people to be marveled at, rather than a set of social, political, and cultural problems to engage.
		You won't know which of your ideas are novel or trite, simple or complex, suspiciously trendy or embarrassingly out of date, or what avenues of research have already been pursued.
	www.slate.com /id/2118854 (1687 words)

	Histories (history of literature)
		Due to the public's disapproval of "invented" stories, Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Henry and Sarah Fielding and their contemporaries labeled their fictions as "histories," "lives," "memoirs," "voyages," "travels" and "adventures." A number of these works were indeed based upon truth, but so greatly embellished that the appeal was the same as that of total imagination.
		Early 18th century novels and romances were still not considered part the world of learning, hence, not of part of literature; they were market goods.
		In the centre, the novel had grown, with stories that were neither heroic nor predominantly satirical, yet mostly realistic, short and stimulating with their examples of human actions to be discussed.
	www.jahsonic.com /Histories.html (692 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| History Lesson for Girls \| Aurelie Sheehan
		Woven throughout History Lesson for Girls is the saga of Sarah, “the lost heroine”of Revolutionary-era Connecticut, whose bravery in the face of heartache parallels that of Alison and Kate.
		But history is only as true as the elements it is composed of, and the girls’ good intentions dissolve in the face of adult deception and cruelty.
		History (which is to say, reality) changes with perspective, of course, and The Chronicle of the Lost Heroine may be no more fanciful and illusory than some of the sanctioned histories championed by the adults (Mr.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/history_lesson_for_girls.html (2344 words)

	From Transcendental Novel to Epic History (Chapter 3)
		The second half of Carlyle's statement in "On Biography," that epics were "histories"-a statement in keeping with the widely held belief that the Homeric poems were historical suggests that epics manifest belief as it is enacted in history (Turner, 136-37).
		These models of history are not dialectical; they hypostatize the elements of cultural consensus of certain eras in order to posit epochs of "nature," "belief," or "culture," while they treat historical change as characteristic only of intermediate periods of "transition...
		History is confined to the transitional period that by its nature is regarded as having no coherence or center.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/carlyle/vandenbossche/3d.html (3423 words)

	The Seattle Times: Books: "Case Histories": Don't let this riveting novel's title fool you
		The term "case history" usually connotes a clinical file — an account of an illness or crime written in dryly medical, or dispassionately bureaucratic prose.
		When applied to Kate Atkinson's absorbing novel "Case Histories," however, we get something quite different: the interlinking sagas of several disparate, unresolved crimes, all eventually landing at the doorstep of Jackson Brodie, a British private detective and former cop whose involvement in his work runs deeper than gumshoe professionalism.
		What gives "Case Histories" real gravitas is its layered comprehension of the dynamics of loss — among the siblings, parents and others whose own lives have been distorted by the shock, guilt and impotence of losing near and dear.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/books/2002121765_atkinson19.html (503 words)

	Notes on the beginning of the English novel
		Novels differ from earlier narrative fiction in a certain freedom from stereotypes in plot, character, and names.
		The people who exist and the things that transpire in novels are recognizable as behaving and occurring in believable human ways -- things happen in the fictional world according to laws that are essentially like those governing the everyday world.
		Readers of novels "identify" or "empathize" with the heroes and heroines of novels, suggesting a greater closeness between readers and novel characters than between readers and characters in other fictional forms.
	www.lit-arts.net /Behn/novel.htm (1117 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Alternate History: After the Nazis Won World War II
		In a conventional novel set in the present you are rarely lectured on the history that has produced that present, so revealing the origins and development of alternate paths only slowly and erratically aids the suspension of disbelief.
		The novel opens in a 1949 in which Germany is still at war with the Soviet Union—the front seesaws well east of the prewar border—and at peace with Britain, which retains an empire swollen with some war booty extracted as the price of peace with the Reich.
		That was how the history Priest and Walton alter was understood when I was a boy—that with the appeasers discredited, England in 1940 and 1941 was again to herself but true, at which point the three corners of the world did come in arms against her.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/web/20061021-alternate-history-world-war-II-operation-sea-lion-invasion-of-britain.shtml (2307 words)

	The History of Free Nations
		Small, stateless communities everywhere and throughout history have developed law before any state strutted onto the scene.) While the seed of state did exist from the outset in North America, for a long time it could barely grow; it remained relatively small.
		I propose that it is also necessary, in the history of free nations such as they have existed thus far on Earth, that a free nation be defended by natural barriers, such as oceans or mountain ranges, at least while it is young and still vulnerable.
		History seems to show that the free nations of a given era got started centuries earlier in regions which were remote hinterlands at that earlier time.
	freenation.org /antechamber/HistoryOfFreeNations.html (3640 words)

	History
		In Herodotus' Histories we find compilation of books that introduce readers to the world as it was known to the Greeks in the fifth century B.C. Herodotus was a first-rate storyteller, a geographer and ethnologist.
		Thucydides realized that history (in his own time) was largely unknown because major events had never been accurately set down before.
		Without reading these histories it is impossible to fully understand the works of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, David Hume, Adam Smith or the American Founding Fathers.
	www.jrnyquist.com /history.htm (645 words)

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		Accordingly, his 1807 assessment of novels, whose readers would “often be deluded by estimates of human life and happiness that are calculated upon false foundations,” seems to reveal a moralizing retreat from fiction and an abandonment of those “wild narratives of the imagination” pursued in his younger days (Brown 1807).
		The proximate appeal of the novel and history-writing warranted a synthesis that Brown appreciated in the “fictitious biographies” of Richardson and Fielding (see Brown 1804); the desired synthesis of the life-events of marginal, unremarkable personages with the grand sweep of historical movements obviously prefigured the work of Walter Scott as well.
		History surpassed the novel in its possibilities, and, having departed from the novel form, Brown devoted himself to refining the presentation of historical narrative while chronicling the differentiation of historiographic modes.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /mdrexler/blackwell_literary_histories1.doc (4369 words)

	History
		His histories pull the reader in like fiction, and are laden with interesting facts and details about intriguing people.
		Lamb's history books are a curious mix of styles, though all are frequently organized in libraries as either fiction or biography.
		Lamb's crusade history is loaded with authentic details and little-known information, analysis of the events, and descriptions of acts heroic and despicable on both sides.
	www.haroldlamb.net /history.htm (656 words)

	Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel Caroline A. Jewers- A new book from the University Press of Florida
		Caroline Jewers contests the widespread notion among critics that the novel originated after Don Quixote, and she argues for the reinstatement of the medieval romance into the current histories of the genre.
		Jewers sketches a prehistory of the novel from the Old French romance to the Occitan romans chevaleresques (focusing on the roman de Flamenca and on Jaufre) to the Catalan Tirant lo Blanc and beyond.
		In tracing the early history of the genre, Jewers focuses on its habits of self-consciousness and parody, and her analysis, unlike most studies grounded in a single national literature, illustrates the novel's development through several different vernacular traditions (French, Occitan, Catalan), with a brief consideration of Spanish literature.
	www.upf.com /Fall2000/jewers.html (311 words)

	Khazaria.com - History of Jewish Khazars, Khazar Turk, Khazarian Jews
		David Keys wrote an article about the Atil digs in BBC History Magazine's May 2008 issue which says they've found, among other things, turquoise-glazed ceramics from Persia, stone cauldrons from Uzbekistan, amber beads from the Baltic region, a dragon-adorned belt end from China, and a copper crucifix.
		The Wind of the Khazars, a novel by Marek Halter
		Essays summarizing the history of the Khazars, their principal cities, their culture, and their conversion to Judaism in the 9th century.
	www.khazaria.com (1886 words)

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