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  Novel - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The plain and direct purpose of the novel is to amuse by a succession of scenes painted from nature, and by a thread of emotional narrative.
But the novel adapts itself to so large a range of readers, and covers so vast a ground in the imitation of life, that it is the unique branch of literature which may be cultivated without any real distinction or skill, and yet for the moment may exercise a powerful purpose.
Of the novels of Giovanni Brevio (1480?- 1;.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Novel   (5976 words)

  
 novel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Thus, the modern novel is rooted in two traditions, the mimetic and the fantastic, or the realistic and the romantic.
The novel became the dominant form of Western literature in the 19th cent., which produced many works that are considered milestones in the development of the form.
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.
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 Novel
Novels are a relatively recent genre, first flourishing widely in the early 18th century in Europe.
The early novel was meant to reach a large public and at the beginning it was considered as a lower form of literature - neither true nor beautiful.
What sets the novel apart from a short story is that it is longer, more complex, and deals with more than one issue in the lives of its characters.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_novel.html   (556 words)

  
 Novel - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Novels can be classified into dozens of genres, and novels may belong to several of these categories at the same time.
In its general form, the novel of manners is concerned with subtle nuances of behavior and standards of correctness, usually in upper-class life.
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.
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Psychological novels are stories in which the primary focus is on the workings of the mind in the leading character or characters.
The novels of Henry James are psychological in that the crucial events of a story often occur in the minds and spirits of his characters.
For the average reader the brilliance of such novels as 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) and 'The Egoist' (1879) is obscured by the absence of plot and the subtleties of the language.
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 The Novel
The novel is often said to have emerged with the appearance of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722).
The social novel is concerned with the influence of societal institutions and of economic and social conditions on characters and events.
The detective novel is a combination of the picaresque and psychological novel in that it reveals both events and their motivation.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/novel.html   (1150 words)

  
 Psychological novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A psychological novel, also called psychological realism, is a work of prose fiction which places more than the usual amount of emphasis on interior characterization, and on the motives, circumstances, an internal action which springs from, and develops, external action.
The psychological novel is not content to state what happens but goes on to explain the why and the wherefore of this action.
The first rise of the psychological novel as a genre is said to have started with the sentimental novel of which Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a prime example.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychological_novel   (225 words)

  
 Television Point | Dictionary | Meaning of novel
Note: In civil law, the novel or new constitutions are those which are supplemental to the code, and posterior in time to the other books.
That is a new sight which is beheld for the first time; that is a novel sight which either was never seen before or is seen but seldom.
Novel theories are regarded with distrust, as likely to prove more ingenious than sound.
www.televisionpoint.com /dictionary/?define=novel   (281 words)

  
 Introduction to The Trauma of Gender
In the modified picaresque, the bildungsroman, and the novel of psychological realism (all genres written predominantly in the realistic mode), the son who either bears or must discover his father's name also assumes his father's place: his property, social position, capacity for economic survival in the public world, and authority as founder of a family.
She defines the novel as a modern discourse of gendered subjectivity that makes its appearance in seventeenth-century conduct books and then shapes and is shaped by what she categorizes as domestic fiction: the genre begins with Pamela and includes all novels with female protagonists and an emphasis on sexuality and the marriage plot.
She wishes to demonstrate that the novel sought to disentangle sexual relations from the language of political power in order to mask socioeconomic interests by representing them as psychological and by iden- tifying that psychological discourse with women.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9126/9126.Intro.html   (8496 words)

  
 Psychological novel
At the time Stendhal wrote The Red and the Black, the prose in novels included dialogue or omniscient descriptions, but Stendhal's great contribution was to spend much of the novel inside the characters' heads, describing their feelings and emotions and even their inner conversations.
George Meredith (1828-1909) was one of the first to apply psychological methods to the analysis of his characters.
It is a melodramatic novel set in 1830s France relating a young man's hypocritical rise to power, influence and wealth and subsequent fall.
www.jahsonic.com /PsychologicalNovel.html   (850 words)

  
 Murasaki Shikibu
Her book, The Tale of Genji, is the world's first psychological novel and one of the longest and most distinguished masterpieces of Japanese literature.
Murasaki may have begun her novel about 1003 and continued writing it, with interruptions, until her death, at which time it might or might not have been finished.
Thus, the lengthy novel, which began with the enchanting atmosphere of a fairy tale, ends in the most complex psychological analysis of unhappy people shrouded in flest gloom.
www.edwardsly.com /murasaki.htm   (902 words)

  
 New Psychological Horror Novel by D. P. Roseberry Just Released.
D.P. Roseberry's Spider School is a quick, page-turning novel that touches upon the psychological horror facing a teen with arachnophobia.
Spider School is an exciting and creepy tale closely aligned to her interests and prior science fiction, horror, and fantasy novels: RODENTICIDER and DYSFUNCTIONAL; and Short stories in horror anthologies—Travel guide to the Haunted Mid Atlantic Region and The World’s Greatest Chapbook.
The Haunted Elevator is scheduled to be released in the fall/winter of 2006 and Ghosts of Valley Forge and Phoenixville in spring 2007.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/8/emw421260.htm   (363 words)

  
 Novel Summary
A novel (from French nouvelle Italian "novella", "new") is an extended fictional narrative in prose.
A discussion of novel as an art form that expresses the human condition, with examples of authors from the 17th century onward.
Traces the development of the novel as literary form from Britain in the 18th century.
www.bookrags.com /Novel   (216 words)

  
 novel: Types of Novels
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 Stream of Consciouness
Its forerunner was the psychological novel as exemplified by Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which had an enormous influence on many such novelists.
A loss of confidence in absolutes, in political authority, scientific authority, religious authority, or indeed even the authority of a unified subject or identity (with the rise of psychology during the 1920s) all can be related to some extent to the shifting practices and innovations in artistic and literary form.
Quite a few novels used interior monologue or the free indirect style in their rendition of a central character's perceptions of the world and inner thoughts in response.
acweb.colum.edu /departments/english/eng2/woolf/stream.html   (737 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | Saving Elijah | Fran Dorf
Laced with humor and passion, the novel confronts a multitude of psychological and philosophical issues, from the forces that bind a family together, to the nightmarish underside of modern life-saving technology, to what it means to be human.
Although these novels explore human passions and combine elements of mystery with magical or supernatural touches, they are primarily thrillers.
Through many early drafts, I struggled to write a conventional novel about a woman whose marriage had broken up after the loss of a child, telling her story mostly in flashback.
us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/saving_elijah.html   (1433 words)

  
 Berlin: Temporal Topographies
Bourgeois realism, the psychological novel, impressionism and aestheticism, finally even his own expressionist position and futurism—nothing is secure from his reformatory zeal, directed towards the creation of an exemplary modern literature.
Realism and modernism are either conceived as binary categories, or it is argued that modernist literary techniques achieve effects of "realist" consciousness, which is to say that they choose to represent a hitherto neglected form of experience or reality that made no part of traditional, nineteenth-century realism.
Moreover, Döblin has repeatedly characterized his conception of the novel as a new form of epic, a form, in other words, that is generally associated with the representation of a totality, an integration between individual and collectivity.
www.stanford.edu /group/berlin/data2/CLEAN/pathways/alex/crisis.html   (466 words)

  
 ESA - Aurora Exploration Programme - Study of new technologies/techniques of psychological support
Experiences from different backgrounds, countries and environments shall be collected in order to identify the most promising means for in-flight psychological support during a Mars mission.
This includes providing an overview of new ideas on technologies and techniques that could be used for psychological support under the restrictions of a Mars mission and to propose promising developments.
Review of novel psychological support methods and technologies that might be applicable to long-duration exploration missions; a rating of these and, derived from this, proposals of promising concepts that should be developed in the future.
www.esa.int /esaMI/Aurora/SEMP3R7X9DE_0.html   (289 words)

  
 A Brief History of the Novel
The development of the realistic novel owes much to such works, which were written to deflate romantic or idealized fictional forms.
Defoe and Richardson were the first great writers in our literature who did not take their plots from mythology, history, legend, or previous literature.
The science fiction novel relies on scientific or pseudo-scientific machinery to create a future society which parallels our own.
www.georgetown.edu /faculty/sd224/Classes/handouts/HistoryofNovel.htm   (958 words)

  
 Artful Dodge - Original Interviews - Nathalie Sarraute
Although Tropisms was quietly received upon publication in 1939, its second edition as well as her treatise on the fate of the novel, The Age of Suspicion (L'Ere du soupcon, 1956), have served as focal points in the development of the New Novel.
In modern art, in the modern novel, it's not necessary to show the wife of a provincial doctor, etc., because you, who are here in Bloomington, feel the same thing.
Then again, all psychological research at the present time is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts.
www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/interviews/sarraute.htm   (3217 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Victim (Penguin Classics): Books: Saul Bellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The novel is about a Jewish man, Asa Leventhal, who, while his wife is away, encounters an old acquaintance who both accuses Asa of ruining his life and demands Asa to make them "even." Concurrently, Asa encounters family troubles when his estranged brother's family has a crisis.
His novels are written in a narrative form, and the main character is a Jewish male, usually a writer but not always, and he is living in either in New York or Chicago.
By the middle of the present novel, there is a definite change in the writing and we see Bellow leaving that dull pace of the first novel.
www.amazon.com /Victim-Penguin-Classics-Saul-Bellow/dp/0140189386   (1931 words)

  
 'Man from Autumn' , A New Psychological Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Man from Autumn is a navigational chart for the private journey of Self, concealed in a psychological novel.
The format of a novel within a novel allowed me to weave a mystical connection between Enrique, the author, and his main character, Breogán, to explore the synchronistic aspects of our personal experiences.
Although the magnitude of what happens to a priest in the novel within the novel could shake the foundation of Western theology and science, the Vatican’s decision to keep it a secret, reflects the complexity of disclosing truth to a skeptical world.
www.psychicsahar.com /artman/publish/printer_419.shtml   (635 words)

  
 Borzoi Reader | Catalog | Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
In knowing what makes a great story, he has the instincts of a tabloid journalist, but in its delivery he displays the delicacy of a connoisseur who understands how to mete out his tale so quietly that when it bites, its mark is indelible.
This is the kind of book Arthur Conan Doyle could never have written (far deeper psychological insight, far more sophisticated use of irony and awareness of the limits of fiction), yet it has all of the master's narrative panache.
I can't think of a novel I've read in the last couple of years where the characters walk off the page as unstoppably as they do in Barnes's portrait of Doyle and Edalji.
www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307263100   (1034 words)

  
 Institute of Biocognitive Psychology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Although it is a work of fiction, the book introduces, in an incidental modality, my theory of mind-body-culture psychology and it’s applications to relationships, wellness and longevity.
The mystical characters in the novel represent archetypal qualities that teach us how to live honorably, how to navigate synchronicity and how to accept the abundance of love, wealth, and health as our divine entitlement.
In his psychological novel “The Man from Autumn”, he explores how modern cognitive science and Christian mystical theology can converge to address stigmata as well as psycho-spiritual conflicts that mimic psychiatric disorders.
www.biocognitive.com /WorkShopE49.htm   (173 words)

  
 New Novel Explores the Sociology of Abuse
Johnson's new psychological novel, Kept Secrets, examines how early abuse can continue to negatively affect a whole life.
The questions that David Lee asks himself are questions of great psychological and sociological importance.
Her novel The Shell will be out In July 2006, and another fictional work, Holman, will be available to readers in September of 2006.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/10/emw450140.htm   (592 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Fight Club : A Novel: Books: Chuck Palahniuk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills.
Palahniuk's first novel is a social commentary that gives the proletariat the upper-hand to change the world through planned acts of random violence.
The novel's brooding Catcher in the Rye-type ending is much more thought provoking than the film's impressively cinematic pyrotechnics blowout.
www.amazon.ca /Fight-Club-Novel-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/0805076476   (1965 words)

  
 ReadLiterature.Com English Literature - Book Review
This novel was one of the most distressing pieces of work I have ever read.
In this social, and very psychological, novel Hardy explores the limitations placed on both social advancement and love by society and its mores.
At least, she is very fragile psychologically- the question remaining is whether her fragility was a consequence of her tragic struggle against soceity, or her struggle against society a tragic consequence of her psychological fragility.
www.readliterature.com /R_judetheobscure.htm   (550 words)

  
 Matthew Klein, author
Matthew Klein writes thrillers and novels of psychological suspense.
In November 2006, his psychological suspense novel, Switchback, appeared in the U.K. and will be translated into several European languages.
In March 2007, Con Ed, a novel that Kirkus calls "a propulsive, noirish tale as well as a smart allegory" will be published in the U.S. by Warner Books.
www.matthewklein.org   (130 words)

  
 Powell's Books - To Feel Stuff by Andrea Seigel
This book is a very interesting novel in that Andrea Seigel was able to take an already gripping moderately paced psychological novel, centered around the three characters quite effectively, and then ramp up the pace at the perfect time to turn the book into a veritable page-turner.
This novel is truly a great modern fiction masterpiece and a must read for any literate person with eyes.
This book is a very interesting novel in that Andrea Seigel was able to take an interesting moderate paced novel, centered around the three characters and then ramp up the pace at the perfect time to turn the book into a page-turner.
www.powells.com /biblio/0156031507   (649 words)

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