Textos Literarios Ingleses III

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Textos Literarios Ingleses III

• Introduction to the English Novel
• From Watts

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A Novel
Extended
Fictional
Prose
Narrative
A L T H O U G H
Not a Story
VeryShort
Non-Fictional
Verse
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Narration
Epic Poem
Description
Dialogue
Tale
Hero / Antagonist
Plot/Episodes/Journey
The Novel
Novella
Realistic Touch
Ballad
Ideal World of First Novels
Romance
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Narrow
Definition of Novel
Broad
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Novel
Romance
Works of Long Fiction

• Loves of Heroes Heroines
• Kings Queens
• Invincible Deeds
• Extraordinary Things

• More Familiar Nature
• Come Near Us
• Brings Also Pleasure
• Nearer Us

DELIGHT
WONDER
(Congreves Incognita or, Love and Duty
Reconciled, 1692)
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The Novel is a picture of real life and manners,
and of the times in which it was written. The
romance in lofty and elevated language, describes
what has never happened nor is likely to. This
distinction has resulted in a distinct use of
romance in reference to modern fictional forms.
In common usage, it refers to works with
extravagant characters, or remote and exotic
places, or highly exciting and heroic events, or
passionate love, or mysterious or supernatural
experiences. (Clara Reeves The Progress of
Romance, 1785)
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Verse
Fictional Story
Prose
Improbable
Romance
Adventures
Relates
Impossible
Remote
Setting
Idealized Characters
Enchanted
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18th C. English Novel
Original Plots
Character
Particularity vs Universality
Time
Place
REALISM
Authentic Account
First Person Narrator
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REALISM
Story Told By an Average Person
Whatever happens Must Be Possible
(Key Word)
Here Now
Everyday Events
Own Environment
Ideas of His Time
Fidelity to Actuality in Its Representarion in
Literature
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Original Plots
Individual Experience
Unique New
Defoe Richardson
Shakespeare, Milton
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Original
Original
Underived, First Hand
Having Existed From the First
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Particularity vs Universality
People
Human Types
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Particular
Literary Convention
Circumstances
Abstract or general terms have no good effect in
any composition for amusement because it is only
of particular objects that images can be
formed. Lord Kames Elements of Criticism (1762)
Hobbes Locke
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Particularity vs Universality
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe
Moll Flanders
Particularity of Description
Pamela
Richardson
Clarissa
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Particularity vs Universality
Time
Place
Character
Background
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Particular Individuals
NAME
As in
Character
Ordinary Life
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Proper Name Each Individual Identity

Character
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Historical Name Or Type Name
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Particular Qualities Or Archaic Connotations
Early Prose Fiction
Character
Proper Names
Individuals in Contemporary Social Environment
Early Novelists
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Complete Realistic Names Aliases
Defoes
Character
Richardsons
Name Surname
Printed List Of Contemporary Persons
Fieldings Amelia
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Objective Study Of History
Late 17th C.
Past vs Present
Essential Category For Individuality
Time
Locke Newton
Presentation of Everyday Life
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Inconsistencies Contradictions
Biographical Perspective
Defoe
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Day of the Week Date Time
Richardson
Time
Almanac Phases of the Moon Time-Table
External Traditional
Fielding
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Before
18thC Novel
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General Vague
Actual Physical Environment
Defoe
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Place
Richardson
Interiors
Verisimilitude Physical Setting
Topography Chronology
Fielding
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Authentic Account
Steele Addison
Adaptation of Prose Style
Defoe Richardson
Immediacy Closeness
Physical
Emotional
Full Authentic Report of Human Experience
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First Person Narrator
Experienced
Narrator
Saw
it
Tells the Story
Heard of
Protagonist
Understood
Real Account of Real Lives gt Autobiography
Only Witness in Lonely Places
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Lets go back and compare some Beginnings under
the light of the preceeding Definitions of
Novel Romance