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Varsity Novel
A varsity novel is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university and focuses on students rather than faculty. Examples include Evelyn Waugh's ''Brideshead Revisited'', Donna Tartt's ''The Secret History'', Tom Sharpe's ''Porterhouse Blue'' and Stephen Fry's '' The Liar'' and '' Making History''. Novels that focus on faculty rather than students are often considered to belong to a distinct genre, termed campus novels. Aida Edemariam, analyzing David Lodge's novels, identifies that varsity novels " reset at Oxbridge, and usually among students." For his part, Lodge considers that the varsity novel was called as such " fore World War II... elatingthe exploits of young men at Oxbridge, of which Max Beerbohm’s ''Zuleika Dobson'' was a classic instance, and the first section of Evelyn Waugh's ''Brideshead Revisited'' was perhaps the swan-song." However, '' The National's'' Malcolm Forbes, asserts "that...all modern varsity novels, have an antecedent in ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
