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Analysis of Modern Novels

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What distinguishes the novel from known fables or myths?

They are little new things, novelties, freshly minted diversions.

In what terms does the term 'novel' still carry overtones of lightness and frivolity?

Despite the high example of novelists like Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf.

What is the purpose of considering the novel in the section mentioned?

To consider the novel as an all-purpose medium catering for all strata of literacy.

What was the need that led to the first prose fiction of Europe being conceived?

To find a literary form that was anti-epic in both substance and language. Signup and view all the answers

What distinguishes the events described in early ancient Roman fiction from epic poems?

The events described are unheroic with settings in streets and taverns. Signup and view all the answers

Which work is considered a great flowering of the novel genre in Spain at the beginning of the 17th century?

Don Quixote of Cervantes. Signup and view all the answers

How is the novel defined as a genre of fiction?

The novel is defined as the art or craft of contriving, through the written word, representations of human life that instruct or divert or both. Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between the various forms that fiction may take?

The various forms that fiction may take are best seen as a continuum or cline, with some brief form like the anecdote at one end and the longest conceivable novel at the other. Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of a piece of fiction being long enough to constitute a whole book?

When any piece of fiction is long enough to constitute a whole book, as opposed to a mere part of a book, then it may be said to have achieved novelhood. Signup and view all the answers

What are the quantitative categories that a novel may be divided into?

A relatively brief novel may be termed a novella (or, if the insubstantiality of the content matches its brevity, a novelette), and a very long novel may overflow the banks of a single volume and become a roman-fleuve, or river novel. Signup and view all the answers

What is the etymology of the term 'novel'?

The term 'novel' is a truncation of the Italian word 'novella' (from the plural of Latin 'novellus', a late variant of 'novus', meaning 'new'), so that what is now, in most languages, a diminutive denotes historically the parent form. Signup and view all the answers

How does the etymology of the term 'novella' relate to the examples given in the text?

The novella was a kind of enlarged anecdote like those to be found in the 14th-century Italian classic Boccaccio's Decameron, each of which exemplifies the etymology of 'novella' well enough. Signup and view all the answers

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