Top Research Papers on Novels

Abstract:Novels speak about human life in relation to the norms and values that orient them. Ideography, which consists in first selecting a set of values and then inventing examples that embody them, was the most frequent way of building novels before the eighteenth century. Later, realist writers focused less on making abstract values visible than on portraying the surrounding world. First they were eager to grasp the customs and social structures that organize it, but as time went by, more recent novel writers began to suspect that what one actually sees might well be linked to enigmatic, f...

The ancient genre ‘novel’ influenced early Christian composition and exegesis most purely in the Pseudo-Clementines, the only true ancient Christian novel. The original Pseudo-Clementine novel was idealistic: carefully constructed to work as a believable whole. Accordingly, it pursued exegesis of the Jesus-tradition in a realistic, or believable, manner, as displayed particularly in the explicit regulation of Peter’s lifestyle and mission by the sayings of Jesus. The Klementia (Hom. Clem.), a later version, transformed the idealistic novel into parody and introduced fantastic eye-popping exege...

Women were taught to be discreet and reserved, to excel in domestic accomplishments and to influence only through familial affections. To gain ‘legitimate’ entry into the ‘male preserve’ of creative writing, women took to writing novels. This chapter examines how Kusumkumari Roychoudhurani’s Snehalata and Swarnakumari Debi’s Kahake? were adaptations of the western genre of novel writing to deal with indigenous societal injunctions on pativrata, dutiful daughter, and sisterhood. The protagonists, apparently docile Snehalata and feisty Mrinalini, are juxtaposed to explore the western ideal of ro...

From 1904 to 1942 DeLisser was editor of the Daily Gleaner, Jamaica's leading newspaper; for twenty-two years, he was on the Board of Governors of the Institute of Jamaica established "for the Encouragement of Literature, Science, and Art," and most of the time he sat as chairman of the Board; he also served for twenty-seven years as secretary of the Jamaica Imperial Association which, along the broad principles of the defunct Imperial Federation League, sought at least to preserve the British Empire if not to federate it. In addition he gave what was acknowledged as outstanding service to Jam...

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This study serves as a prequel to my article “Shaw’s Interior Authors: Censored and Modern,” which explores Shaw’s use of characters who write in his plays and who experience some form of censorship that resembles the experiences of their creator. Interestingly, characters in the early works of Shaw, his five novels, also feel the sting of censorship, albeit in differing degrees from those in his dramas. Because Shaw’s works, both plays and novels, that were suppressed often feature harsh indictments of established society, they become, in effect, proto-modern, as he attacks class, gender, and...

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Dili and AFP had significantly higher %ID/gram than either Tl-201 or Tc-99m sestamibi when considered across all tumor types when considered across all tumor types at both 60 minutes and 24 hours.

Introduction 1. Beginning 2. Narrating 3. People 4. Genre 5. Voices 6. Structure 7. Detail 8. Style 9. Devices 10. Literariness 11. Ending

What turns a literary work into a classic? Something critical is “lived experience,” that is, people read the literary work to make sense of (...)

The question ‘What is a novel?’ has received scant attention in the philosophical literature. Meanwhile, this question is important. In the light of this, in this paper, I would like to address it, suggesting a potential answer. I begin by defining what I call ‘novel in the restricted sense’ – the concept that covers all novels except the so-called nonfiction novels, graphic novels, and novels in verse. Then, drawing upon Jerrold Levinson’s approach to defining ‘art’, I provide a definition of the concept that covers nonfiction novels, graphic novels, and novels in verse. Finally, with the hel...

Anovel is a piece of prose fiction of a reasonable length. Even a definition as toothless as this, however, is still too restricted. Not all novels are writtten in prose. There are novels in verse, like Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin or Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate. As for fiction, the distinction between fiction and fact is not always clear. And what counts as a reasonable length? At what point does a novella or long short story become a novel? André Gide’s The Immoralist is usually described as a novel, and Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Duel’ as a short story, but they are both about the same length. The t...

The category of ‘novel’ should be defined broadly—an extended fictional narrative, usually written and usually in prose—but more important than what it is is what it does, that is, circulate.

The Panel concludes that the novel food ingredient, CSO, is safe under the proposed uses and use levels and considers the dose level of 450 mg/kg bw per day to be the NOAEL in rats.

Safety and feasibility of transulnar catheterization when ipsilateral radial access is not available and the randomized comparison of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty by the radial, brachial and femoral approaches is studied.

Safety and feasibility of transulnar catheterization when ipsilateral radial access is not available and the randomized comparison of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty by the radial, brachial and femoral approaches is studied.

There is an illusive prosperity in novels now.In fact,few people read novels now.They are researchers,teachers and students in colleges and intellectuals.Indeed,the reasons for this phenomenon not only lie in people,but also lie in this information ear and network times.But the basic problems lie in novel itself:the inclination for fabricating a story,being infatuated with violence and eroticism,pursuit of subject benefit.So,we must cultivate our sense,and look for new increasing pots for novels.Only by doing like this, novel and literature will walk out of the dilemma and attain their perfect...

The latest of Jane Yardley's novels involves mystery, wartime crime and Sibelius; and its heroine is a biostatistician, who makes chocolate teddybears, a father who worked with toxic chemicals and a bookmaker's clerk made her do it.

LITERATURE IN THE PHILIPPINES CONTINUED TO BE LARGELY ORAL until the initial years of establishment of the Spanish colonial regime. The Roman alphabet in the country gradually changed the native script, the prayers and other religious and didactic materials continued to be disseminated orally. These new literary materials did not really replace the native literature. On the contrary, the native literature was solely assimilated to the colonial letters. Radical changes, however, began to take place in the "content" of the indigenous and oral literary traditions. Christian ideas and morals began...

This chapter investigates the depiction of cognitive processes within two “autofictional” novels, Serge Doubrovsky’s Fils and David Williams’s Eye of the Father. Both works feature literary scholars as the main protagonists, who recognize their own emotional predicament through their emotional and rational interpretations of literature. These texts speak in interesting ways to – and challenge – recent work in cognitive poetics, raising the question whether rational or emotional reading processes trigger epiphanies. Both novels suggest that the two different literary responses are interdependen...