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| | novel - Columbia Encyclopedia article about novel |
 | | The term novel is derived from novella, Italian for a compact, realistic, often ribald prose tale popular in the Renaissance and best exemplified by the stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1348–53). | | | These novels are not only masterpieces of realism but also—in their carefully crafted form, experimental point of view, and superb style—supreme examples of the novel as a literary genre. | | | An early and prevalent type was the picaresque novel, in which the protagonist, a social underdog, has a series of episodic adventures in which he sees much of the world around him and comments satirically upon it. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/novel
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| | The Betrothed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | I Promessi Sposi (in English, The Betrothed) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni. | | | Widely underappreciated outside of Italy, where the novel is considered a real masterpiece of the Italian literature, it is one of the great European novels of the 19th century. | | | It is the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrothed
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| | This all-inclusive approach is useful even if the themes of the novel or poem are not at all explicitly Italian or related to the immigrant or the assimilative experience. | | | , “DeLillo’s Underworld: Toward a New Beginning for the Italian American Novel,” in Voice sin Italian | | | What was previously implicit about DeLillo is now explicit: that novel resonates with and explores Italian and Italian American themes expansively and deeply, something that he had rarely, and only in short stories about thirty years ago, previously explored. |
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http://www.iawa.net/introduction.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Novel |
| | The word novel came into use during the Renaissance (14th century to 17th century), when Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio applied the term novella to the short prose narratives in his Il decamerone (1353; Ten Day’s Work). | | | Like the people in the Bible, the novel’s characters may search for God and have their own particular dreams and ideals, but unlike many biblical characters, the characters in novels are generally presented as people without spiritual missions and destinies. | | | Because novels are long—generally 200 pages or more—novelists can tell more richly detailed tales than can authors of briefer literary forms such as the short story. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761560384
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| | novel: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The English word "novel" derives from the Italian word novella, meaning "a tale, a piece of news." The novel is longer (at least 40,000 words) and more complex than either the short story or the novella, and is not bound by the structural and metrical restrictions of plays or poetry. | | | The novel genre sometimes is contrasted with the Romance genre—the original concept is similar, hence, the French and German word for "novel" is "roman". | | | These were successors to the Byzantine novel of the twelfth century, itself an imitation and modification of the ancient Greek form. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/novel
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| | ENGL1146 Introduction |
| | The Novella: The English term novel is derived from the Italian novella, literally meaning "a little new thing"; the term was used to describe brief prose tales, often quite scandalous. | | | Although many critics consider the modern novel to have emerged in England, the three chief fictional precursors of the novel were French (the romance), Italian (the novella), and Spanish (the picaresque narrative). | | | Histories: In the seventeenth century the word "novel" was frequently applied to romances of illicit love--one of the most original of which was written by a woman playwright and poet, Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or the History of a Royal Slave (1688). |
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http://www.unb.ca/web/extend/wss/1146demo/introduction.htm
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| | The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Books |
| | This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origins to the contemporary era. | | | The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) | | | The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) |
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http://office-products.globalgiftshopping.com/the-cambridge-companion-to-the-italian-novel-cambridge-companions-to-literature,0521669626_i.htm
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| | Resurrection (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Resurrection, first published in 1899, was the third and last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. | | | The last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime, Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. | | | Opera Risurrezione by italian composer Franco Alfano is based on this novel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_(novel)
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: novel @ HighBeam Research |
| | The term novel is derived from novella, Italian for a compact, realistic, often ribald prose tale popular in the Renaissance and best exemplified by the stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1348-53). | | | These novels are not only masterpieces of realism but also—in their carefully crafted form, experimental point of view, and superb style—supreme examples of the novel as a literary genre. | | | An early and prevalent type was the picaresque novel, in which the protagonist, a social underdog, has a series of episodic adventures in which he sees much of the world around him and comments satirically upon it. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:novel&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Novel |
| | The English word "novel" derives from the Italian word novella, meaning "a tale, a piece of news." The novel is longer (at least 40,000 words) and more complex than either the short story or the novella, and is not bound by the structural and metrical restrictions of plays or poetry. | | | The novel genre sometimes is contrasted with the Romance genrethe original concept is similar, hence, the French and German word for "novel" is "roman". | | | The 18th century is considered, by most scholars of the English novel, to have been the century of the novel's invention or rise, a phrase popularised in Ian Watt's pioneer study in literary sociology, The Rise of the Novel (1957). |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/N/NO/NOV/Novel
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: novel @ HighBeam Research |
| | The term novel is derived from novella, Italian for a compact, realistic, often ribald prose tale popular in the Renaissance and best exemplified by the stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1348-53). | | | These novels are not only masterpieces of realism but also—in their carefully crafted form, experimental point of view, and superb style—supreme examples of the novel as a literary genre. | | | An early and prevalent type was the picaresque novel, in which the protagonist, a social underdog, has a series of episodic adventures in which he sees much of the world around him and comments satirically upon it. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:novel&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | Beyond Redemption |
| | Nothing quite prepares the reader for the final chapters in this novel. | | | Her discovery that she is musically talented, has perfect pitch and has Italian origins is extremely significant for her, and coalesces in her passion for Italian opera both on and off the stage. | | | The main character in th4e novel is Mary Kathleen Mitchell, usually known as Katie. |
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http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/avondale/redemption.htm
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| | novel - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about novel |
| | The term novel is derived from novella, Italian for a compact, realistic, often ribald prose tale popular in the Renaissance and best exemplified by the stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1348–53). | | | These novels are not only masterpieces of realism but also—in their carefully crafted form, experimental point of view, and superb style—supreme examples of the novel as a literary genre. | | | An early and prevalent type was the picaresque novel, in which the protagonist, a social underdog, has a series of episodic adventures in which he sees much of the world around him and comments satirically upon it. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/novel
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| | Fodor's Travel Guides Forums Messages |
| | It is considered one of the founding novels of italian literature, and the only novel that is required reading for every italian high school student. | | | the characters in these novels are sort of swashbuckling geeks who chase gold and Newton around the globe, mixing historical and fictional characters and events. | | | It is a historical novel set in northern italy during the Spanish domination in the 17th century, written in the 19th century. |
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http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34540953&numresponses=124&start=0
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| | THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Dantes Inferno by Sarah Lovett |
| | Beyond that, is a tale which traces a novel written by John Freeman Dantes called Dantes Inferno, which parallels the literary classic written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, entitled the Inferno, the most famous book of his three part Commedia. | | | Dantes Inferno (by John Dantes) is essentially the story of Dantes love for the city of Los Angeles, and his despair at what the present powers that be wish to do with it. | | | Sweetheart can be a great help to Sylvia in tracking their suspect, but he has nothing but disdain for Dantes, a man whom, Sylvia believes, is, in essence, a victim himself. |
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http://www.themysteryreader.com/lovett-dantes.html
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| | Is it possible to write a good historical novel? By J.D. Connor |
| | Alessandro Manzoni's blockbuster debut novel, The Betrothed (1827), was the first Italian historical novel in the vein of Sir Walter Scott. | | | Instead, between 1827 and 1850, he worked intermittently on a theory of the genre, titled On the Historical Novel. | | | If the great formal problem of the historical novel is knowing when to stop and nudge the reader and when not to, Doctorow solves it by finding myriad ways of doing both simultaneously. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2126202/nav/tap2
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| | A Brief Historical Overview |
| | The story goes that Radcliffe, a sedate, conventional matron, was appalled at his novel and his acknowledging her influence on him, so she responded with The Italian, whose villain is also a monk to show how a novel of terror and suspense should be written. | | | Contemporary readers found the novel electrifyingly original and thrillingly suspenseful, with its remote setting, its use of the supernatural, and its medieval trappings, all of which have been so frequently imitated that they have become stereotypes. | | | These novels follow a pattern: an innocent, inexperienced, young heroine suspects her superior suitor or husband, who is usually older, often wealthy, and worldly-wise of a crime; she may have to compete with an older woman for his affections, a competition she of course wins. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/history.html
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| | Blankets (graphic novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Critics have further hailed it as one of the best graphic novels in recent years, claiming that the book will be remembered for its superb execution a decade after publication. | | | The French, Spanish and Italian editions all have different cover art. | | | A memoir, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blankets_%28graphic_novel%29
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| | I'M NOT SCARED |
| | Given his predominant focus on grown-up questions of generational identity, utopian ideologies, disillusionment and escape, Gabriele Salvatores seems an odd match for Niccolo Ammaniti's bestseller " I'M NOT SCARED," one of the most vividly cinematic Italian novels of recent years. | | | Ammaniti's sensitive, richly evocative novel, which unfolds during the hottest summer on record in a Sicilian rural village in 1978, provides an uncommonly concrete narrative by the standards of contemporary Italian cinema, which more often revolves around introspective, emotional or intellectual concerns than stories with a beginning, middle and end. | | | Instead, here Salvatores limits himself to translating a strong story - Niccolo Ammanitis best-selling novel of the same name - into strong visual form. |
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http://www.capitolfilms.com/ACCOUNTING/HTML/224.html
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| | Franz J. Potter The Monster made by Man Reviewed by Mario Guslandi |
| | The so-called canonical Gothic fiction is represented by a group of famous novels including Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' (1764), MG Lewis' 'The Monk' (1796), Ann Radcliff's 'The Italian' (1797), Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein' (1818) and Charles Maturin's 'Melmoth the Wanderer' (1820). | | | This complex novel was originally published in 1803, mixing the themes of deformity and depravity with the classical deal with the Devil. | | | A captivating, supernatural story of temptation, passion and punishment, the novel has been the source and inspiration of more than one gothic short story, two versions of which, 'The Mysterious Bottle of Old Hock', and the more moralistic 'Saint Anthony's Flask' are reproduced in the present volume. |
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http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2005/potter-gothic-the_monster.htm
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| | The Patriot Ledger at SouthofBoston.com |
| | Lester confesses that part of his interest in the novel is personal. | | | There's even a connection to Federico Fellini, the Italian filmmaker known for his ironic social analysis and love of the grotesque. | | | In the novel, Karl's uncle (whom he meets when he arrives in New York and who takes him under his wing for a while) is a self-made man, a great shipping magnate who has become a state senator. |
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| | Backwash - Content - Aging Young Rebel |
| | Nick Tosches is best known for his rock criticism and his writings about music, but in his novel "In the Hand of Dante", he cleverly mixes a biographical story about the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri (maybe even the greatest poet, period) with happenings surrounding a Dante manuscript today. | | | Of course, there are many more historical novels or stories based on historical fact, only a few columns ago I mentioned a novel by José Carlos Somoza and a baroque trilogy by Neal Stephenson, and I’m sure many can list others. | | | It’s a strangely constructed but beautifully written novel, set in 16th century Istanbul, and even though the story is rooted in Islamic history and custom, it never alienates readers not familiar with the religion. |
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http://www.backwash.com/content.php?id=87
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| | VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Con Gli Occhi Chiusi : Main |
| | This gentle Italian drama is based upon the 1919 autobiographical novel by Federico Tozzi. | | | This gentle Italian drama is based upon the 1919 autobiographical novel by Federico Tozzi.... | | | The film tells the story of teenagers Ghisola and Pietro whose closeness is born of the pain the two experience in their daily lives. |
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http://www.vh1.com/movies/movie/92224/moviemain.jhtml
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| | Amazon.ca: The Catastrophist : A Novel: Books |
| | James Gillespie, a disillusioned Irish historian turned novelist, has arrived in the Congo on the eve of independence, hoping to reunite with his Italian lover, Ines. | | | Look for books like The Catastrophist : A Novel by subject: | | | Ronan Bennett told his story with sensitivity for the political climate, and a keen insight into human relationships. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684870363
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| | Sentimental Journey, A -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | His novels and poems rank among the masterpieces of Italian literature. | | | Irish-born English novelist and humorist, author of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), an early novel in which story is subordinate to the free associations and digressions of its narrator. | | | A comic novel by English author Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a combination of autobiography, fiction, and observations made by the author on his own travels. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9336157
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| | ‘Scoop’ on Iraq by Matthew Rarey |
| | Waugh wanted to write a novel inspired by his newspaper experience covering the greatest feat of Italian arms since Julius Caesar: the 1935 tank-vs.-donkey conquest of Ethiopia. | | | Even Scoops boozy correspondents were innocent of such a sin of omission: they did not know there was gold in them thar hills. | | | The resulting book resembles The Quiet American, if written by P.G. Wodehouse. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/rarey2.html
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| | How to be a Romance Novel Hero |
| | There are no STDs and very few unwanted pregnancies in romance novels, so go ahead and have your way with willing servant girls, Italian contessas, and "birds of paradise" who sing in low operas in London. | | | Thus I have become familiar with that most elusive of God's creatures, the Romance Novel Hero. | | | The primary characteristic of Romance Novel Heroes, sexually, is Omnireadiness. |
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http://www.geocities.com/catherinekusske/romance_hero.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Review How Evelyn Waugh's life shaped his work |
| | The novel's interchangeable press magnates, Lord Copper and Lord Zinc - of the Brute and the Beast, respectively - are paralleled by Pip and Pop, the Bedtime Pets, in the Beast's Children's Corner. | | | The novel ends on a chillier note: "Outside the owls hunted maternal rodents and their furry brood." It was 1938. | | | Scoop best illustrates both the bizarre nature of Waugh's dented valuables, and the exquisite order in which he arranges them - political reversals, mistaken identities, children's stories, typing mistakes, a Latin telegram - all changed, changed utterly. |
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | Huge, intricate, and frequently hilarious novel of the ultimate occult conspiracy—or the ultimate human delusion. | | | This edition is the same as the Del Rey except there is no ISBN and the jacket is printed as the soft cover. | | | An Italian nobleman with an imaginary evil twin is marooned on an empty ship only a mile from an enchanting island. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b154.html
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