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PICARESQUE NOVEL
 According to Bright, S. G. (2022) Picaresque Novel is a type of adventure fiction
story that follows a rogue character as he travels from place to place. These novels are
typically written in the first person, are episodic in nature, and may contain romantic
elements. Also, Picaresque novel must have the following seven characteristics:
1. First-person narration - Picaresque stories are told from the protagonist's
perspective, as an autobiographical account of the adventure.
2. The protagonist is of a low social class - The protagonist of the story is a
picaro, or rogue hero. A picaro is a person of low social standing.
3. The protagonist is a carefree and immoral hero - The heroic picaro is
uninterested in working, which leads to immoral and nearly criminal behavior.
4. Minimal character development - Because the picaro adventurer does not
wish to conform to society's expectations, their character does not undergo a
complete transformation.
5. No actual plot - Picaresque novels are satirical, adventure, and romance
stories.
6. Realism - The story shows how the protagonist would rather live with their
wits than anything else.
7. Satire - Since a picaro character feels like an outsider in society, their daily
adventures lead them into ironic situations.
 This is the example of Picaresque Novel
o Don Quixote (1605)
 This Miguel de Cervantes novel was published in two parts. Part one
was published in 1605, but part two wasn't until 1615. The plot
revolves around Alonso Quijote, a lower-class nobleman. He is
obsessed with reading chivalry and romance stories. He is inspired to
become a knight-errant, seeking adventure, and bringing chivalry back
to his country. He adopts the new name Don Quixote. Quixote realizes
he needs a fair maiden to shower his kindness and love on his gallant
quest. He asks her to accompany him as he performs heroic acts in her
honor. In his chivalrous adventures, Don Quixote has many amusing,
ironic, and troubling experiences.
2. Epistolary Novel
 Epistolary is a literary genre pertaining to letters in which writers use letters, journals,
and diary entries in their works, or they tell their stories or deliver messages through a
series of letters.
 This is the example of Epistolary Novel
o Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's first novel, began in the form of letters.
She uses three narratives or perspectives that allow readers to form
their own opinions about the story. The first narrator is Robert Walton,
who provides his perspective on Victor. When Victor is dying, Robert
records his confessions and narrative. The second narrator is Victor
himself, who expresses his thoughts on Walton. Finally, the creature
disrupts Victor, allowing readers to hear its point of view. Walton
begins and ends this novel by relating a series of events through letters
 to his sister, creating suspense by using the word "demon," while
Victor's letters and the monster's perspective provide frames for the
main body of the narrative.
3. Three-Decker Novel
 The three-volume novel, also known as a triple decker, was a clever money-
making strategy employed by the now-defunct private circulating library.
 This is the example of Three-Decker Novel
o The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dicken (1836)
 Dickens complains in The Pickwick Papers about a system that
allows people to be ensnared and suffer in a system from which
they can never escape. The Pickwick Papers is filled with stories
about good people who are trapped in poverty or debtors' prison.
4. Historical Novel
 A popular type of novel is the historical novel, which aims to combine the
dramatic interest of plot and character with a detailed picture (various aspects of
life) of a specific era.
 This is the example of Historical Novel
o Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1865-69)
 Human Motives are Irrational. Although a large portion of War and
Peace is about war, which we associate with clear-headed strategy
and rational reasoning, Tolstoy constantly emphasizes the irrational
motivations for human behavior in both peace and war.
5. Regional Novel
 The Regional Novel depicts the life of people in a specific region outside of a
Metropolitan City, including customs, traditions, dialect, and natural scenery. It
may also highlight a clash between two opposing ideologies, cultures, and beliefs.
The Regional Novel not only describes the landscape and people's manners, but it
also highlights some social and economic issues of the time.
 This is the example of Regional Novel
o Maria Edgeworth’s Novel “Castle Rackrent” (1800)
 Can be deemed as the first fully developed Regional Novel in
English. She has skillfully painted the life of Irish people and their
manners through her novels.
6. Satirical Novel
 Satire is loosely defined as art that ridicules a specific topic in order to provoke
readers into changing their opinion of it. By attacking what they see as human
folly, satirists usually imply their own opinions on how the thing being attacked
can be improved.
 This is the example of Satirical Novel
o Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
 Swift's primary priority of Gulliver's Travels was to show how the
English government and society needed reform. Swift, an Irish
patriot and former admirer of English government and life, sees
England and all its glory in a very different light now.
7. Bildungsroman Novel
 Bildungsroman is a novel genre that depicts a young protagonist's journey from
childhood to adulthood (or immaturity to maturity), with an emphasis on the trials
and tribulations that affect the character's development.
 This is the example of Bildungsroman Novel
o Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte
 Brönte's novel Jane Eyre uses the classic three-part structure (Early
Life, Formative Experiences and Conclusion) and begins with Jane
as a young girl.
8. Roman A-Clef Novel
 A roman A-clef is a novel that tells a loosely disguised true story with fictional
names for the characters.
 This is the example of Roman A-Clef Novel
o Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point (1928)
9. Roman A-These Novel
 A didactic novel that advances an argument or proposes a solution to a political,
moral, or philosophical problem.
 This is the example of Roman A-Clef
o Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
10. Roman Noir Novel
 The aesthetic of the film was heavily influenced by German expressionist films
from the 1920s and 1930s. Uncanny shots created with "Dutch" angles, or tilts,
and stark, "natural" lighting, such as a single lamp casting light across a room or
sunlight coming through a window at the side of the frame, filtered through
blinds.
 This is the example of Roman Noir Novel
o The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
11. Roman-Fleuve Novel
 A series of novels, each one complete in itself, that deal with one central
character, an era of national life, or successive generations of a family (French:
"novel stream" or "novel cycle").
 This is the example of Roman-Fleuve Novel
o 10-volume Jean-Christophe (1904–12) by Romain Rolland
12. Roman- Feuilleton Novel
 Literary and nonliterary genres and styles are mocked in the feuilleton. It is
unique in that its goals and approach to facts are both literary and journalistic. The
form, content, and functions of the genre have evolved over time.
 This is the example of Roman- Feuilleton Novel
o Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers (1844)
13. Science Fiction Novel
 Science fiction, which is typically futuristic, speculates about alternative ways of
life made possible by technological change, and is thus sometimes referred to as
"speculative fiction." Science fiction, like fantasy and is frequently associated
with it, envisions alternative worlds with believably consistent rules and
structures.
  This is the example of Science Fiction Novel
o Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
14. Post-Modernist Novel
 The postmodern novel is, by definition, a radical experiment that emerges when a
writer believes that traditional fiction tropes have been exhausted.
 This is the example of Post-Modernist Novel
o Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy (1759-1767)
15. Nouveau Roman Novel
 A French avant-garde literary movement that questioned traditional literary
elements such as linear plots and character development. These novelists, as a
loosely knit group of individuals, largely reacted against Realism.
 This is the example of Nouveau Roman Novel
o Émile Henriot (1957) Le Monde
16. Metafiction Novel
 Metafiction most likely had its roots in the modernist way of questioning the idea
of reality and consciousness.
 This is the example of Metafiction Novel
o The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1937)
17. Fantastic Novel
 A type of fiction that focuses on fantastical elements (the fantastic). This can
include magic, the supernatural, alternate worlds, superheroes, monsters, fairies,
magical creatures, mythological heroes, and anything else an author can conjure
up outside of reality.
 This is the example of Fantastic Novel
o Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
18. Fabulation and Sur fiction Novel
 A term used by some modern critics for a mode of modern fiction that openly
delights in its self‐conscious verbal artifice, thus departing from the conventions
of realism.
 This is the example of Fabulation and Sur fiction Novel.
o Giles Goat-Boy (1966) by John Barth
19. Magic Realism Novel
 Magical realism is a literary genre in which the real world is depicted as having
an undercurrent of magic or fantasy. Magical realism is a subgenre of the realism
fiction genre.
 This is the example of Magic Realism Novel
o Franz Roh (1925) Nach Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus (After
Expressionism: Magical Realism)
20. Faction Novel
 The faction genre consists of stories based on historical figures or events that are
intertwined with fictitious elements.
 This is the example of Faction Novel
o Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
21. Postcolonial Novel
  The novel reflects a general shift in literary studies away from poetry and toward
narrative, but its dominance in postcolonial studies can be attributed to three
factors: the novel's representational nature, its heteroglossia structure, and the
function of the chronotype in the novel.
 This is the example of Postcolonial Novel
o Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah (1973)
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