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From a close study of E.M.Forster's "A Passage to India" and Julian Barnes' "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" examine the features which make up "a novel".
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From a close study of E.M.Forster's "A Passage to India" and Julian Barnes' "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" examine the features which make up "a novel". NOVEL? How can you decipher the word novel? The easy answer to that is, you cannot. There is NO straight definition for the word novel, and everyone has his or her own opinion of what a novel is. The novel is a relentlessly evolving genre, however the 20th Century has been deemed by critics to have experienced a series of rapid revolutions in the form of the novel. With each 'revolution' there appears to be a new definition of the novel. This does however not imply there has been a discontinuity. Walter Allen offered a modernist approach to the novel in 1954; he suggested "Every novelist gives us in his novel his own personal, idiosyncratic vision of the world...All aspects of...
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