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The Story of the Novel (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.)
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The Story of the Novel (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.)
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As George Watson playfully observes, the story is the best thing
about a novel. The deliberately ambiguous title of his book
reflects the fact that it combines a study of the art of narrative
with the history of the novel as a literary form, since its
emergence some three centuries ago. Employing a thematic approach,
the author moves from one aspect of narrative to another rather
than discussing novelists chronologically. The book considers
various kinds of novels, such as the memoir novel and discusses
issues such as the presentation of dialogue, the creation of
scenes, tense and time and the relationship between the novel and
history. Arguments are illustrated by well-known rather than
obscure works, or novels likely to be familiar to students who take
this book as a starting-point for the modern study of narrative.
The reader is presented with a clear picture of how the novel has
evolved and how its chief conventions have developed and changed
since the seventeenth century. This new and revised edition brings
back to life this invaluable and straightforward work on the
technique of the novel, which first appeared in 1979.
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