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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

Dear Students Greetings. The following links will take you to books on 'Literary Terms' that you have on your 'Genres' course. Please use them to further your knowledge: https://www.uv.es/fores/The_Routledge_Dictionary_of_Literary_Terms.pdf http://armytage.net/pdsdata/%5BChris_Baldick%5D_The_Concise_Oxford_Dictionary_of_L(BookFi.org).pdf https://mthoyibi.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/a-glossary-of-literary-terms-7th-ed_m-h-abrams-1999.pdf Best Wishes CE Teacher

Dear Students Greetings!! Read the following before you attend the class today; Motivation in Language Learning:   Kinds and Factors Motivation is important for completing any task. The success or failure of a task depends on motivational factors.   Research shows that motivation plays a great role in mastering a foreign language. Gardner says that the desire to learn a language and the attitudes one has will help to develop a   language.  Motivation is of four kinds. Dornyei defines that motivation is of two kinds – ‘ intrinsic ’ and ‘ extrinsic ’. Intrinsic motivation refers to the enjoyable conditions in achieving an action. Extrinsic motivation refers to the external conditions that help in achieving a target, i.e., offering a reward or avoiding a punishment. These two are interdependent. Brown and Gardner explained motivation as ‘ instrumental ’ and ‘integrative’ motivation. If we acquire a language to get a job or to understand a brochure or a techni