Novel

Novel

1. Short story

   • Predecessors: The fable, the exemplum, the folktale, the fabliau, and the parable.
   • A brief work of prose fiction. It begins in the 19th century
     • Birth of the modern short story: 1850s in the USA
   • Flexibility as a genre:
     • It can be a psychological sketch or fragment
     • It can be a highly plotted comic tale
     • It can take the form of a dialogue, an over heard converaation or a fleeting memory
     • It can be a parable, a fairy-tale revisited or an overheard tall tale

2. It´s an extended work of fiction written in prose. It begins in the 18th century

3. Classification:

   • Epistolary novel, antinovel, social novel, realistic novel, piraresque fiction, regional novel, fabulative novel, magic realisim, prose romance, novel of formation or education, Künstlerroman Artist novel, historical novel (Documentary fiction, documentary drama, non fiction novel)

4. Theories of the novel's origin

   • Evolutionary theories: more realistic until it turned into a novel
   • Osmotic theories: literary forms absorb changes in the strcuture of society and change accordingly
   • Theories of convergence: different genres come together to form the new genre of the novel