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MAIN TENDENCIES OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NOVEL
By : M.R.Sethi
Shape and form
During the eighteenth century a number of innovations in both
subject matter and narrative technique took shape. The novelists had
to reconcile the demands of narrative order and the realistic
portrayal. The art of fiction often involves the close imitation of
true narratives. The novelists adopted various techniques in order
to present the form and content of their works. Some of them, like
Defoe, Defoe adopted the episodic technique, which more often than
not produced a loose baggy form of a novel, without much sense of
narrative order or progression or organic unity. Later Fielding
self-consciously uses Chapters and Books as in his novel Joseph
Andrews. This conflict between the demands of realistic presentation
and....
ART VERSUS PROTEST IN THE
MODERN AFRO-AMERICAN FICTION
By : M.R.Sethi
Protest is perhaps
as old as the human race itself. Right from the time when Adam and
Eve defiantly turned their back on the authority of God and walked
out of heaven, hand in hand, protest has come to man more naturally
than accommodation. As literature is basically the product of social
forces, a writer cannot help projecting his experience into his
writing. The history of the Negroes in America has been a history of
slavery, cruelty, oppression, lynching, racial discrimination and
Jim...
AND ALL I WANT IS A TALL
SHIP..... Part II
By : M.R.Sethi
1. In 1577 Drake
set out on his voyage round the world. What was the name of his
flagship?
2. Built at the turn of this century, this battleship was the idea
of Admiral of the Fleet Sir John, Fisher, first sea lord. Can you
name the ship?
3. `Missouri' was the name of a famous battleship. How did this ship
became famous in the Second World War?
4. In which play do these famous lines appear, "Was this the face
that launched a...
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