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Novel series by genre (13 C) * Films based on novels by genre (10 C) 0–9. 1970s novels by genre (1 C) A. Action novels (27 P) Adventure novels (11 C, 20 P)
Literary historian Ian Watt, in The Rise of the Novel (1957), argued that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century. Recent technological developments have led to many novels also being published in non-print media: this includes audio books, web novels, and ebooks. Another non-traditional fiction format can be found in graphic novels.
Systems novel is a literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction. [1] LeClair used systems theory to critique novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and Ursula K. Le ...
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year. The novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more; awards are also given out in the short story , novelette , and novella categories.
A novel is a long, fictional narrative. The novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style. The development of the prose novel at this time was encouraged by innovations in printing, and the introduction of cheap paper in the 15th century. Several characteristics of a novel might include:
The novel was "the only genre born of this new world and in total affinity with it" (Bakhtin 1981:7), and was therefore the most apt form for literary expression in the modern world. One interesting observation in the essay is the ability of the novel to influence and ‘ novelize ’ other genres.
The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th-and 19th-century literary genre which presents and celebrates the concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from sensibility, was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction beginning in the eighteenth century in reaction to ...
The picaresque genre began with the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) (Pictured: Its title page) The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for 'rogue' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but "appealing hero", usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society ...