MORALISING PURPOSE -(=Defoe) to promote goodness and virtue
TECNIQUE -epistolary form
AND STYLE
RICHARDSON'S EPISTOLARY TECNIQUE AND INFLUENCE:
-the author record the sequences of thoughts and feelings almost moment by moment
-it provided immediacy
-it create a sense of intimacy between characters and readers
-it had the same function as soliloque in drama
-it anticiped the STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS technique of modern fiction
-it became an expression of idividuately
-defects such as prolixity and repetitiveness
THE COMIC EPIC NOVEL
HENRY FIELDING
Aristocratic man, he attack and satirized social and political corruption.
According to Fielding Richardson's Pamela was characterized by sham (falsa) morality-ipocrisy-ambiguity..so he wrote Shamela with satirical and critic purpose. It is written in epistolary form and it was simply the parody of someone else's work.
It was only with "Joseph Andrews" that he realized the possibilities of the new literary genre and decided to approach it methodically by first defining and codifing novel rules.He use a preface that contained all the other constituent parts of classical epic with the exeption of metre.(such as fable , action characters..)
THE COMIC EPIC NOVEL:
-fable+ action were no longer grave and solemn but light and ridiculous
-characters were persons of middle or inferior rank so of inferior manners
-sentiment + diction were imbued with the ludicrous (no with sublime)
-thecomic element was very important to ridicule affectation produced by vanity and hypocrisy
To describe comic situations within an epic structure, F. Looked for a model and found it in Cervantes' Don Quixote,from wich in Joseph Andrews he borrowed the structure of journey,humor heroism,epic tone...
FEATURES:
PLOT -presents a combination of episodes, structure and organized in an organic unity(no longer based on a
simple sequence of events or on a single story)
SETTINGS -are outdoors no longer interiors
CHARACTERIZATION -belong to middle class and lower classes since the greatest diversities between them are the potential for
the truly comic; characters are STATIC
NO -F. Is much more interested in society than in single characters(#Richardson)F. Propose to show not men
INDIVIDUALIZATION but manners not an individual, but a species.
REALISM -novels offer a realistic and genuine picture of 18th century English life
MORALUIZING -there in no idea of puritan punishment.Sexual instinct frankly presented and it isn't immoral but simply
PURPOSE controlled and directed to good. The moral message is connected with F's belief in men's natural
inclination to goodness.He wants to make man realize that virtue is better than vices and that laughter can
be the means to defeat immorality
NO EXAGERATED -there aren't melodramatic episodes; love is a strong feeling
SENTIMENTALISM
SOCIAL -is made indirectly through the personal experiences of the characters who may for example be robbed by DENUNCIATION highwayman o unjustly sentenced to prison , in order to represent the danger of roads and the corruption
of justice
IRONY - connected with the mock-heroic character of the novels, irony is always broad (sguaiata)
THE ANTI-NOVEL
LAURENCE STERNE
His real gift as a writer
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