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...
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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
Motivation in Second language Learning : Kinds and Factors
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 b...
Dear students, Greetings. Please watch the video and discuss the following questions in the class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAVGs_UrTA4 1. What are the different elements in the action part of a novel? 2. What are 'round characters'? 3. What is meant by a 'flat character'? 4. Explain 'point of view' in a novel. 5. Explain the term 'characterisation'. Let's meet in the class. Best, CE Teacher
Dear students In the previous class we discussed the 'Elements of Drama'. now watch the following video and answer the questions that follow: https://slideplayer.com/slide/4489435/ 1. What is a drama? 2. How many kinds of elements do you find in a drama/play? 3. What are the 'literary elements'? 4. What is meant by 'conflict'? 5. Mention the 'technical elements' you find in a play. 6. Why are 'performance elements' important in a play? Share your answers on the blog. Best,
Analysis of a Poem
Analysis of a Poem: Dear students in our previous class we discussed how poetry was divided into different kinds. We also observed the varieties like lyric,elegy etc., In today's blog post we are going to observe how we can approach a poem for an analytical study. Follow this link https://www.richland.k12.la.us/documents/common%20core%20standards/cc/8th/ela/12343/ELA_GR8_U5_BLM_Final.pdf read the article and make notes. Once you complete your observations we can discuss it. I know you will enjoy reading this. Best Dr. Vijay