Narrative literature

Narrative literature

Narrative literature ( Greek επική (ποίησις) "epic belonging seal") - alongside the drama and the poetry -- the three major genres of literature and includes narrative literature in verse - or prose form

Until the poetry of the 18th/19th Century, the epic a name for the art of epic. With the increasing differentiation of epic poetry in the 19th Century and the development of prose, under the term epic all genre the narrative literature. The epic is different from the drama and poetry by fundamental characteristics of the design, communication and functioning. These features include:

* Tell a typical form of mediation between narrator and listener or reader, but from the perspective of a character or narrator tells ,
* Mindfulness of the event as a past or untied dealing with the time (Narrator),
* Design of social conditions,
* Portrayal of individual events, experiences (also known as stream of consciousness).

Among the first epic forms, for example, Inscriptions on goods which are the subject explain (epigram) and the higher forms (Gnome-saying elegy). In the cosmogony Theogony and mystical Salvation Teaching n receives a more epic poetic content, by the natural events in personalized deeds and events depicted. For the forms fairy tales forecast and legend n this applies equally. By the end of the 18th Determines the century epic the characteristics of those forms.

In the transitional phase from feudal to civil society changed fundamentally the epic and it is in Europe the transition from verse to a prose epic. In order for this differential to make tangible world, had to develop new narrative. This includes e.g. Roman. At the same time, due to the industrial revolution, more effective mechanisms for the distribution and production of literature. This accelerated the development of literary forms and developed as Such as the amendment, gloss, short story and Short Story.

Prose means something like "speech" or "story". Short stories, short stories and novels are the most popular and most widespread forms of epic, which also reported in the media and debated. Newspapers and weekly magazines in New discuss regularly reviews; on TV there are always rounds of talks about books and authors. The two outstanding book events of the year: the Frankfurt Book Fair in early October and the awarding of the Nobel Literature Prize.

Forms of Prose

* Large
** Roman
** Epic
** Satire
** Parody
* Short forms
** Story
** Story
** Satire
** Short story
** Romance (literature)
** Calendar History
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** Saying
** Aphorism
** Puzzle
** Sic
* Popular forms
** Fairy tales
** Forecast
* Teaching forms
** legend
** Fable
** parable parable

References

ee also

* Literary genre
* Drama
* Poetry

External links

* Wiktionary - Prose


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