Author: N S Tasneem
Publisher: Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 118
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8179860248
Description
The Punjabi novelists have shifted their stance from telling a tale to delineation of character to the depiction of the atmosphere of the mind since the appearance of 'Sundari' by Bhai Vir Singh. This work deals with modern literary theories and the art-form of the novel, and also dwells on the narrative modes employed by the Punjabi novelists.
Narratologists treat the narrative not in the traditional way, as a fictional representative of life, but as a systematic formal construction. In section One of the monograph, two chapters deal with modern literary theories and the art-form of the novel. In Section Two the narrative modes employed by the Punjabi novelists, during the last one hundred years or so, have been highlighted. At present the Punjabi novel is caught in the crosscurrents of thematic concerns and stylistic approaches.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
SECTION ONE
CHAPTER I: Understanding Modern Literary Theories
CHAPTER II: The Novel as an Art Form
SECTION TWO
CHAPTER III: Plot Construction
CHAPTER IV: Character Delineation
CHAPTER V: Scream of Consciousness
CHAPTER VI: The Novel as a Poem and an Epic
CHAPTER VII: Crosscurrents in Punjabi Novel
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