Novel
Also known as
- Novelist
A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long written, fiction, prose narrative. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romance and short novels, novella, has brought definitions of both traditions into the modern usage of the term.
The modern novel can no longer be seen as an entirely European product. It is not – as critics like Ian Watt had pointed out in the 1950s – an early 18th century...
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