Types of Novel

Narrative structure

a scene set for action to take place within. the narrative structure runs the story
varies in intensity and levels of dominance

Narration

This can take place from different points of view. The most neutral, most hidden approach, is the third person, with the least necessary "intrusion" to describe and present the narrative. This narrator is like God, all knowing and all seeing, but only revealing so much as necessary so that the story's life-world has its freedom and independence.

Naturalism

naturalistic writers were influenced by the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin and the ideas of Hippolyte Taine, a philosopher. Race,Milleu, EtMoment

. Naturalistic writers wrote stories that adopted the perspective that a person's character is determined by one's lineage and environment.

Picaresque

A set up and denial of the romance. in search of an ideal, and shows the characters to be foolish and in fact involved in no such thing other than atckling their predicaments as they prove too powerful or complex to resolve.

Post-Modern

Time and space is distorted, and characters can inhabit more than one world. Somewhere rules are broken and ordinary narration is disturbed. playfulness with language experimentation in the form of the novel less reliance on traditional narrative form less reliance on traditional character development experimentation with point of view experimentation with the way time is conveyed in the novel mixture of "high art" and popular culture interest in metafiction, that is, fiction about the nature of fiction

 Borges major projects: the blurring of these boundaries, between fact and fiction, reality and unreality.

Short stories about infinite library entitles Library of Babel, essays that discuss Judas to Kafka.

Psychological

noun a novel that focuses on the complex mental and emotional lives of its characters and explores the various levels of mental activity.