modern novel
Recent literary work
The modern novel is fiction written from roughly the late 19th century onward, characterized by experimentation with form, interior consciousness, fragmented narrative, and departure from Victorian conventions.
Writers like Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner exemplify the form through stream of consciousness and nonlinear storytelling.
The term distinguishes these works from earlier novelistic traditions: a seminar on the modern novel from Conrad to Pynchon.
- contemporaryOf the present age
- literary fictionProse emphasizing craft and depth
- fictionImagined narrative work
- literaryOf written works
- narrativeAccount of events
protagonist · character · first person · unreliable narrator · prose · realism · stream-of-consciousness · paperback · bestseller · New York Times · book club · chapter · plot · page turner · experimental · dystopian · author · manuscript
- proseshort story, novellas, essay, fiction, autobiography
- FlaubertMadame Bovary, Rouen, mot juste, obscenity trial
- Punjabi heritageGuru Granth Sahib, var, folk literature
modern novelepic poem
Extended heroic narrative verse
lyric poetry · ballad · short story · medieval romance · haiku
modern novelclassical literature
Foundational Western texts
ancient literature · medieval romance · classical text · Victorian novel · romantic novel
modern noveloral tradition
Culture passed by speech
folk literature · fable · parable · chivalric romance · mythology
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