First given as a series of lectures at Cambridge University, Aspects of the Novel is Forster’s analysis of this great literary form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, and features a new preface by Frank Kermode.
Forster’s Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. First given as a series of lectures at Cambridge Unive E.M. You can read this before Aspects of the Novel PDF full Download at the bottom.Į.M. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Aspects of the Novel written by E.M. So even though he was done writing fiction, his criticism still remained.Brief Summary of Book: Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Anyway, he also lived for another 30 years. But there’s so much more modernism on its way.
And he mention Ulysses, and clearly has already begun to reckon with it. Challenging here in terms of providing complex understandings on ideas about the world and doing so beautifully. And this list includes A Room with a View, Howard’s End, and A Passage to India, all of which are serious and challenging novels. EM Forster was close to 50 when he wrote this, and have already published all his fiction. I think the book is positioned in an interesting moment too. The plot then, are the details and moments that get us to that story. The essence of the book is what it hopes to capture. This feels like a summary, or an overview, but I think the more important way to look at it is as the essence of the book. The story is what happens or what the book aims to tell. And this is something that I really try to emphasize with students. The primary distinction that I think makes this collection interesting is between story and plot.
The book is divided into the different “aspects” like story, plot, people, style and rhythm, etc. I think it mostly still holds up, so long as your aim is not grad or professional literary criticism (and probably still plenty if it is). This is a collection of eight lectured that EM Forster delivered in 1925 or so about the different elements of the novel.
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