The situation of the novel.(AUTHOR PROFILE)

World Literature Today;  May 1, 2005 ;   Sultan, Sabbar S.;   787 words ......form in which we currently know it, the novel has never ceased to assume its role throughout...naturally been prone to fiction. When the novel is marked by literary and technical distinction...important reasons behind human interest in the novel and our vigorous response to it is that...

novel

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;    CHRISTOPHER BALDICK;   537 words ...novel, nearly always an extended fictional prose narrative , although...even tell a story. Such exceptions help to indicate that the novel as a literary genre is itself exceptional: it disregards...x2010;matter. Thriving on this openness and flexibility, the novel has become the most important literary ...

Caveats for teaching the novel.

Academic Exchange Quarterly;  March 22, 2005 ;   Gose, Michael D.;   787 words ......the success he has had in teaching the novel to his adjustments to the realities of teaching. Is it realistic to teach the novel as if one's students are going to become English teachers? Is it realistic to teach a novel that is beyond the capacities of the students...

Some theories of one's own: 'Orlando' and the novel.

Studies in the Novel;  September 22, 1993 ;   Thompson, Nicola;   787 words ......thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.(1) The novel is often celebrated for its multiplicity of voices, for...2) Bakhtin identifies its idiosyncrasies in Epic and Novel : The novel parodies other genres and incorporates others into its...

Can the novel be saved?

USA Today;  January 1, 2001 ;   Alther, Lisa;   787 words ......place in our minds and hearts. I REGARD THE NOVEL as something of an endangered species...Before discussing how and why I fear the novel is changing in ways that seem in some ways...Scholars argue over when and where the first novel was written. Thirteenth-century Japan and...

Redlands author to lead novel-writing workshop

Redlands Daily Facts;  January 10, 2008 ;     284 words ...REDLANDS - Bruce McAllister will lead an all-day novel-writing workshop Saturday, Feb. 9, at his...workshop in inner exploration and "choosing the novel that's right and true for you." Topics: Why write a novel at all (the many reasons writers do it) Why...

Women and novelistic authority.(Women and the Rise of the Novel)(Chivalric...

Studies in the Novel;  December 22, 2004 ;   Hoeveler, Diane Long;   787 words ...JOSEPHINE DONOVAN. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. New York: St. Martin's Press...Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida...the convoluted and complex origins of the novel. The most well known analyses have been...

The death of the novel

The Spectator;  July 26, 2008 ;   Massie, Allan;   752 words ......time a-dying', and, if it could speak, the novel might do the same. Its death has been so...to declare that 'we no longer want the Novel as our great-grandfathers did'. That judgement...appetite for fiction has not staled. The novel as entertainment flourishes. Airport bookstalls...

The Novel as Concept.

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  September 22, 1999 ;   Cela, Camilo Jose;   787 words ......I have compared the process of making a novel with the process of having a child. The...Still, to have a child, just as to have a novel, to write it, a set of circumstances must occur, for without them neither child nor novel can be produced. Savants, those who pass...

Monument or Tombstone? A Review of Encyclopedia of the Novel.(Review)

Narrative;  October 1, 2001 ;   Richter, David H.;   787 words ......Marijke Rijsberman, eds. Encyclopedia of the Novel. 2 vols. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn...seem to be the first encyclopedia of the novel ever. Schellinger and his coeditors, aided...entries, have put together 650 essays on the novel. At least half of the 350 contributors...

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: Destined to Die: A Novel about Palestinian Youth...

The Middle East Journal;  October 1, 2005 ;   Salih, Sabah A;   749 words ...LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Destined to Die: A Novel about Palestinian Youth as Fighters and...playwrights of ideas, he tried his hand at the novel, writing three naturalistic ones before...Shaw learned the hard way was that the novel, being in Virginia Woolf's words the "most...

Back to the novel.(The End)(Book review)

The Southern Review;  June 22, 2008 ;   Giraldi, William;   787 words ......THOSE IRRITATING ALLEYWAY WHISPERS of the novel's demise never go out of fashion. The technological...doom-saying seers who prattle on about the novel's death--or those more ambitious lunatics...cocaine-like Internet cannot abolish the novel for the same reason that science has found...

Critifictional reflections on the pathetic condition of the novel in our...

symploke;  January 1, 2004 ;   Federman, Raymond;   787 words ...The novel is a bourgeois art because it gives itself...never before seen in the landscape of the novel: a timeless stage without scenery (not unlike...than from reality. I know of no opening of a novel more engaging, more fascinating, and more...

Film captures novel's essence -- almost

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 30, 2007 ;   Dennis Healy;   515 words ...I reviewed Cormac McCarthy's novel "No Country For Old Men" in this column...believed that they would be faithful to the novel's stark brutality and overriding themes. My wife recently finished reading the novel, so we attended the movie and had our...

Are the best days of the novel behind us?

Jerusalem Post;  January 27, 2006 ;   JOHN FREEMAN;   787 words ......01-27-2006 Headline: Are the best days of the novel behind us? Byline: JOHN FREEMAN Edition; Up...writer of importance announces the death of the novel. Last year it was V.S. Naipaul standing over the novel's grave. "It is almost over," the Nobel laureate...