Development of Style and Form 19 TH -CENTURY REALIST NOVEL.
-
Upload
dominic-ward -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
3
Transcript of Development of Style and Form 19 TH -CENTURY REALIST NOVEL.
Development of Style and Form
19TH-CENTURY REALIST NOVEL
One character: focus of the novel – usually life story
Mimetic form – diary, travelogue, letters etc.
Prose seen as inferior to poetryNot really a literary form but rather a cheap entertainment for (mainly) women
EARLY NOVELS
Novel s become more sophisticated
Narration: omniscient narrationdialoguesmany protagonists (not just one)wide social backgrounddiscursive distance: irony and satire
19TH CENTURY
revealing unknown worldspenetrating mindcharting social relations
POLITICAL FUNCTION
1. Original plots – not universal stories
2. Characters as special people – recognizable individuals, not symbolic figures
3. Importance of when it takes place4. Importance of where it takes
place
IAN WATT: FORMAL REALISM
1. Domestic subject matter.2. Characters are ordinary people presented as complex.3. Moralistic in its appeal.4. Language does not draw attention to itself.5. Events are arranged in the chronological order.6. The narrative reaches a clear resolution.7. The narrator does not draw attention to herself or
himself.8. Detailed description of the events characters and
setting.9. Realist operators – the inclusion of arbitrary detail.10. Appeal to the cultural code supposedly shared by the
recipients of the text.
REALIST TEXT