Difference between traditional novel and modern novel
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modern fiction seems to be written with an eye to a screenplay. I read “The Kite Runner” and it read as if it were going to be a movie. And sure enough…modern fiction is often written in a style I call “journalese” - the document reads like a newspaper article. And the fact that the spell check didn’t complain about that word must meamn it’s out theremodern fiction… I hate to start with that again - doesn’t use as many adjectives, or descriptive scenes as classical fiction. I read a lot of William Boyd - his books are fairly sparse of descriptive text. Compare “Any Human Heart” to Thomas Hardy’s “The Return of the Native”. It’s as if unless there’s conversation or action, the book can’t move.
modern fiction seems to be written with an eye to a screenplay. I read “The Kite Runner” and it read as if it were going to be a movie. And sure enough…modern fiction is often written in a style I call “journalese” - the document reads like a newspaper article. And the fact that the spell check didn’t complain about that word must meamn it’s out theremodern fiction… I hate to start with that again - doesn’t use as many adjectives, or descriptive scenes as classical fiction. I read a lot of William Boyd - his books are fairly sparse of descriptive text. Compare “Any Human Heart” to Thomas Hardy’s “The Return of the Native”. It’s as if unless there’s conversation or action, the book can’t move.
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TRADITIONAL NOVEL
· Interest in society and outward actions
· Chronological time
· Omniscient narrator
· Didactic aim
MODERN NOVEL
- Interest in man and the psyche
- Subjective time - flashbacks, anticipations, the story within the story, special forms of punctuation (dashes, parentheses) Interior monologue/the narrator disappears
- Looking for a moral centre in human experience
- No chronological order- the conventional structure of beginning, development and conclusion disappears
- Trivial events occurring over a short period of time
- Sensations, dreams, thoughts, recollections of the characters (main focus)
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