Twentieth-Century Novel Characteristics

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What was the primary focus of the twentieth-century novel?

  • Character development (correct)
  • Storytelling and entertainment
  • Propaganda and social issues
  • Victorian values

Who were some prominent nineteenth-century writers that influenced the twentieth-century novel?

  • Feodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy (correct)
  • Charles Dickens and Jane Austen
  • Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe
  • Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne

What did novelists learn from the prominent nineteenth-century writers?

  • To focus solely on storytelling
  • To develop complex characters with a mixture of traits (correct)
  • To present people as wholly good or bad
  • To maintain the protagonist-antagonist structure

What was dominant in the earliest period of the twentieth-century novel?

<p>Henry James and Joseph Conrad (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

During which period were novels written since World War II?

<p>After World War II (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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