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Introduction: The Novel Novel Chapter 1 The Ancient Novel Egyptian Mesopotamian Hebrew Greek Roman Christian Chapter 2 The Medieval Novel Irish Icelandic Byzantine Jewish Arthurian Chapter 3 The Renaissance Novel Spanish French English Bridge The Mesoamerican Novel Chapter 4 The Eastern Novel Indian Tibetan Arabic Persian Chapter 5 The Far Eastern Novel Chinese Bibliography Chronological Index of Novels Discussed General Index Although I unwittingly planted the seeds for this book in a short promotional piece I wrote in 1993, These three had their own attackers and defenders - and of course similar arguments have been made i Anyone who thinks linguistic extravagance in novels began with Ulysses in 1922 hasn't done his hom a Sanskrit scholar would nominate the 7th-century novelist Bana for that distinction. Of Lopez de First, a little history lesson. The standard history of the novel - the one that MPF seem to believe and Latin satires, where the plot was a mere convenience that allowed the author to engage in rhetor The European novel went underground during the Middle Ages but continued to mutate in interesting wa A traditional critic would stop me right here to object that I haven't defined the novel yet, nor di Even though Hawthorne labeled some of his book-length fictions "romances" rather than "novels" - a Novelist Jane Smiley also kept it simple: "A novel is a (1) lengthy, (2) written, (3) prose, (4) n Latin novellus, a diminutive of novus ("new" or "extraordinary"), yielded the late Latin substantive Fresh, untraditional. "An experiment is attempted in this novel, which has not (so far as I know) be Because the novel can be both a work of art and a form of entertainment, misunderstandings and recri When not applied strictly to painters, "artist" does have a pretentious sound to it - "It's artiste I have several problems with these distinctions. First, Status and Contract are odd word choices, ha to their level, not pout because they haven't lowered themselves to ours.' Think of the novel as an opera, with the author singing all the parts and playing all the instrument rhetorical performance ever mounted, making wider and more masterful use of all the forms and techni though he may as well be speaking of Joyce. Samuel Johnson had lousy taste in novels - he derided Or as Joyce put it, "The important thing is not what we write, but how we write it.."20 The story of Romeo and Juliet goes back ultimately to the fifth-century A.D. Greek romance of Ephesi
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