ENG210Y1 Lecture : ENG210 LEC02
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Novel tell stories of ordinary people (us), either singularly or a group, in a specific setting/world (social world in realistic sense: a long prose narrative. Spiritual and mystical situations were what the narratives of the middle-ages were mostly about. Novel (definition in eng210) art form begins in 18th century arises from particular historical and social circumstances. Realism a mode of writing that draws on the experience of an everyday experience: mode a central idea of the novel which is the origin, and defines the difference between crusoe and pilgrim"s progress. Allegorical figure christian struggles in a spiritual world (psychological) Realism a literary movement that happens in 1830s. Everyone thinks they"re modern: used to define a historical change, describing historical culture (classical period (greece, rome)) its dominance dies out, feudalism, Renaissance (modernity begins to emerge: periods = useless because there"s no point, economics, politics, culture, and every aspect of people"s lives change.