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Dear Students! Welcome to VI Semester. During this Sem you will have Elective III and Cluster I. Here are some important books you should study. I am providing some links for your textbooks. Plz read the first chapters before you attend the classes. 1. An Introduction to the Study of Literature: https://archive.org/details/introductiontost00hudsrich/page/n7 2. An Outline History of English Literature: http://elib.press/ebook/B005G1GQ0G 3. A Glossary of Literary Terms: https://mthoyibi.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/a-glossary-of-literary-terms-7th-ed_m-h-abrams-1999.pdf 4. Research Methodology https://10142453867335716312.googlegroups.com/attach/c52fc2e316406f26/research%20methodology%20methods%20and%20techniques%20by%20C.R.Kothari.pdf?part=0.1&vt=ANaJVrGpMZhjs8KTp19JYL0gQffvQ9r2GOdgLvIfYBx_ItvMy4mesuj0ABa2bLcug2efOBkwaLfChjmumpkuI8KKi4vtC48PTtVxFP4Md1xjOO169wI-81s You can refer to these books any time by following these links. Good Luck! ...
The Origin of Novel and its Kinds - II Novels may have any kind of plot form—tragic, comic, satiric, or romantic. But broadly they are of two kinds: the realistic novel and the romance. The realistic novel is a fictional attempt to give the effect of realism, by representing complex characters with mixed motives . These characters are rooted in a social class and operate in a developed social structure. They interact with many other characters, and undergo plausible, everyday modes of experience. Defoe, Fielding, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, and Henry James belong to this group. A realistic novel focuses on the customs, conversation, and ways of thinking and valuing of a particular social class and it is often called a novel of manners . Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and John P. Marquand produced this kind of novel. The prose romance , on the other hand, has as precursors the chivalric romance of the Middle Ages and the Gothic no...
The Origin of 'Novel' and its Kinds - I Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy ; Jane Austen's Emma and Virginia Woolf's Orlando; Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers and Henry James' The Wings of the Dove ; Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Franz Kafka's The Trial ; Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake ; Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita are some examples for novels. "The novel is an extended narrative. The novel is distinguished from the short story and from the work of middle length called the novelette ; its magnitude permits a greater variety of characters, greater complication of plot (or plots), ampler development of milieu, and more sustained exploration of character and motives than do the shorter, more concentrated modes." As a narrative written in prose, the novel is distinguished from the long na...