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The encyclopedic novel is a genre of complex literary fiction which incorporates elements across a wide range of scientific, academic, and literary subjects. The concept was coined by Edward Mendelson in criticism of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, defined as an encyclopedia-like attempt to "render the full range of knowledge and beliefs of a national culture, while identifying the ...
Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction [1] or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.
Joara is S. Korea's largest web novel platform with 140,000 writers, with an average of 2,400 serials per day and 420,000 works. The company posted 12.5 billion won in sales in 2015 as profits were generated from 2009. Its membership is 1.1 million, and it uses 8.6 million cases a day on average (2016). [122]
There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. [2] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; [3] [4] at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages.
Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel is seen as a major contribution for establishing how the novel appeared as a literary form during the 18th century. [1] [3] [4] [9] Also much of the discussion and commentary for over forty years, about the novel's beginnings, center on Watt's ideas in this book. [3]
Sarah Lyall in The New York Times writes ahead of publication that Brodsky's decision to entitle the novel *** "does present its own difficulties". [1] The novel was reviewed by Brian Evenson in Review of Contemporary Fiction, [2] Scott L. Powers in the Boston Globe, [3] and Judith Upjohn in American Book Review, [4] as well as in Publishers Weekly [5] and Library Journal.
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 biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction , details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictional genre, the novel .