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Epic/Novel (Chapter 3) - The Cambridge Companion to the Novel

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We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. from Part I - What is a Novel? Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2018 It is one of the peculiarities of novel theory that it has a hard time saying what, after all, it thinks a novel is or should be. We know that the novel is not short (except when it is), it is not in verse (although it can be), and it is not real (although the novel has had an iffy relation to fiction at least since Defoe called Robinson Crusoe “a just history of facts”).1 As opposed to a sonnet with its fourteen lines and its volta or to a tragedy with its five acts, its peripetea and catharsis, the novel has seemed to many of its best readers to be best defined by its protean resistance to programmatic definition; and because critics have had trouble saying what once and for all it is, they have som

Epic/Novel (Chapter 3) - The Cambridge Companion to the Novel Search Institution Login Search Hostname: page-component-76d6cb85b7-5qg8f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-07-21T03:27:45.613Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false Home > Books > The Cambridge Companion to the Novel > Epic/Novel The Cambridge Companion to the Novel Buy print or eBook [Opens in a new window] Read book online Book contents The Cambridge Companion to the Novel The Cambridge Companion to the Novel Copyright page Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Part I What is a Novel? 1 The Nov

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