Novel Types
ITL –NOVEL SELECTED TYPES
Romantic – This form of novel goes beyond ordinary experience and social predicaments into make-believe. Something new is being searched for in an alternative world beyond familiar circumstances so that the novel's purpose is a moral or ideal issue. Nevertheless, the transportation to some idealized world, or going on a somewhat fantastic journey, can lead to disappointment, and its moral outcome. The characters' ideals can be crushed. The fantastical journey can be a big illusion or joke, where the reality is a series of mundane disappointments or repeated errors. European writers tend to present and then undermine the fantastic, whereas Americans use the fantasy to explore matters.
Realistic – writer knows the realities, the places and characters. Writer doesn’t judge anyone. (Limited point of view)
Naturalistic – shows true picture of society, has a thesis that he has to prove (people behave like animals, they have sex drives etc.) It is omniscient. He has some individual naturalistic – typical policeman, prostitute, woman, man etc., no individuality, they sometimes don’t even have names. They show good/bad sides of people, people act like animals but they are able to do great things, shows ordinary people, homeless people. The language in the dialogue is a language people actually speak – they don’t finish sentences, use slang etc.
Historical – Historical fiction is a genre in which the plot is set amidst historical events, or more generally, in which the author uses real events but adds a fictional character.
Picaresque – A set up and denial of the romance, particularly a journey in search of an ideal, and shows the characters to be foolish and in fact involved in no such thing other than tackling their predicaments as they prove too powerful or complex to resolve.
Sentimental – The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of
Romantic – This form of novel goes beyond ordinary experience and social predicaments into make-believe. Something new is being searched for in an alternative world beyond familiar circumstances so that the novel's purpose is a moral or ideal issue. Nevertheless, the transportation to some idealized world, or going on a somewhat fantastic journey, can lead to disappointment, and its moral outcome. The characters' ideals can be crushed. The fantastical journey can be a big illusion or joke, where the reality is a series of mundane disappointments or repeated errors. European writers tend to present and then undermine the fantastic, whereas Americans use the fantasy to explore matters.
Realistic – writer knows the realities, the places and characters. Writer doesn’t judge anyone. (Limited point of view)
Naturalistic – shows true picture of society, has a thesis that he has to prove (people behave like animals, they have sex drives etc.) It is omniscient. He has some individual naturalistic – typical policeman, prostitute, woman, man etc., no individuality, they sometimes don’t even have names. They show good/bad sides of people, people act like animals but they are able to do great things, shows ordinary people, homeless people. The language in the dialogue is a language people actually speak – they don’t finish sentences, use slang etc.
Historical – Historical fiction is a genre in which the plot is set amidst historical events, or more generally, in which the author uses real events but adds a fictional character.
Picaresque – A set up and denial of the romance, particularly a journey in search of an ideal, and shows the characters to be foolish and in fact involved in no such thing other than tackling their predicaments as they prove too powerful or complex to resolve.
Sentimental – The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of