1 / 5

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding. His conception of the novel. He thought that the novel should depict humble, contemporary life as the classical epic had done the more primitive world, so he called his novel “a comic epic in prose” 滑稽的散文 / 无韵史诗 . .

zarita
Download Presentation

Henry Fielding

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Henry Fielding

  2. His conception of the novel • He thought that the novel should depict humble, contemporary life as the classical epic had done the more primitive world, so he called his novel “a comic epic in prose” 滑稽的散文/无韵史诗.

  3. This conception led him to introduce a burlesque element into the style. And he endowed the novel with a notion of form.

  4. His novels • 1.well-constructed to an inevitable ending ,the third person narration ( omniscient narrator) • (c.f. Richardson’s epistolary form; Defoe’s picaresque form) • 2.lively and dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices (suspense, coincidence etc.) • 3.his style: clear, supple, familiar, easy, vivid and vigorous.

  5. Joseph Andrews • Parson Adams • A character simultaneously comic and sympathetic; • heroic in strength and nobility and lovable in his unselfish kindness • but his unsophistication making him the focus of the basic satiric theme

More Related