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| − | <small>Back to [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1]]</small>
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| − | ==Argument 5: The "Rise of the Novel" has been twice re-written over the past 100 years==
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| − | *'''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
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| − | :*'''Novels''' - such as Cervantes' ''Novelas exemplares'' (1613) - were supposed to
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| − | ::*teach through '''good and bad examples''' of what men and women did in peculiar ("novel", i.e. new) situations
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| − | ::*entertain with their rapidly evolving plots of '''intrigues''' (i.e. secret plans),
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| − | ::*be written in '''plain and modern language''',
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| − | ::*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
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| − | :*'''Romances''' - such as the ''Amadis'' which had driven Cervantes' ''Don Quixote'' into a comical heroism - were supposed to
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| − | ::*be '''long epic works'''
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| − | ::*delight with a language full of '''lofty expressions''',
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| − | ::*be constructed as in successions of '''adventures''',
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| − | ::*celebrate the deeds of '''great heroes''',
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| − | ::*inspire an '''emulation''' of the hero's spirit.
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| − | *The "rise of the novel" as defined in 1957 by '''Ian Watt''' in his book of the same title
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| − | :*turned '''French fictional works of the 17th century''' into original production of '''"romances"''',
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| − | :*claimed the new romances written by '''Defoe and his followers''' to be the first '''real "modern novels"'''.
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| − | *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.
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