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:*'''Novels''' - such as Cervantes' ''Novelas exemplares'' (1613) - were supposed to | :*'''Novels''' - such as Cervantes' ''Novelas exemplares'' (1613) - were supposed to | ||
::*teach through '''good and bad examples''' of what men and women did in peculiar ("novel", i.e. new) situations | ::*teach through '''good and bad examples''' of what men and women did in peculiar ("novel", i.e. new) situations | ||
| − | ::*entertain with their rapidly evolving plots of '''intrigues''' (i.e. secret plans) | + | ::*entertain with their rapidly evolving plots of '''intrigues''' (i.e. secret plans), |
| − | ::* | + | ::*be written in '''plain and modern language''', |
| − | ::*end | + | ::*end in a '''point''' - a surprising turn of the events which the story teller could be expected to use for a more or less serious moral conclusion |
:*'''Romances''' - such as the ''Amadis'' which had driven Cervantes' ''Don Quixote'' into a comical heroism - were supposed to | :*'''Romances''' - such as the ''Amadis'' which had driven Cervantes' ''Don Quixote'' into a comical heroism - were supposed to | ||
| − | ::*be '''long epic works''' of | + | ::*be '''long epic works''' |
| + | ::*delight with a language full of '''lofty expressions''', | ||
::*be constructed as in successions of '''adventures''', | ::*be constructed as in successions of '''adventures''', | ||
::*celebrate the deeds of '''great heroes''', | ::*celebrate the deeds of '''great heroes''', | ||
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Back to 2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1
- The rise of the novel was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances
- Novels - such as Cervantes' Novelas exemplares (1613) - were supposed to
- teach through good and bad examples of what men and women did in peculiar ("novel", i.e. new) situations
- entertain with their rapidly evolving plots of intrigues (i.e. secret plans),
- be written in plain and modern language,
- end in a point - a surprising turn of the events which the story teller could be expected to use for a more or less serious moral conclusion
- Romances - such as the Amadis which had driven Cervantes' Don Quixote into a comical heroism - were supposed to
- be long epic works
- delight with a language full of lofty expressions,
- be constructed as in successions of adventures,
- celebrate the deeds of great heroes,
- inspire an emulation of the hero's spirit.
- The "rise of the novel" as defined in 1957 by Ian Watt in his book of the same title
- turned French fictional works of the 17th century into original production of "romances",
- claimed the new romances written by Defoe and his followers to be the first real "modern novels".
- Research of the last two decades has detected a production of "novels" written before Defoe. Authors from Aphra Behn to Eliza Haywood have become "mothers of the English novel" in this development.
