The eighties were characterized by a strong realistic movement, which went far in daring truth of description and brought problems of a social, religious and political nature under discussion in works of a novelisticor dramatic form.
On the other hand, novelistic authors, since they have been interested mainly in the revelation of intimate phases of individual personality, have seized upon the element of love as the leading motive of their stories.
Dramatic fiction has the greater depth, andnovelistic fiction has the greater breadth.
From this we see that the novelistic attitude toward character is much more intimate than the epic attitude.
But, on the other hand, it is novelistic in the emphasis it casts on individual personality,--the intimacy with which it focusses the interest not so much upon a nation as upon a man.
And this is one of the main differences, on the side of content, between epic and novelistic fiction.
Of late, an effort has been made to break down the barrier between the novel and the drama: many stories, which have been told first in the novelistic mood, have afterward been reconstructed and retold for presentation in the theatre.
Probably no other author has succeeded better than Emile Zola in combining the epic and the novelistic moods of fiction; and the novels in the Rougon-Macquart series are at once communal and personal in their significance.
Certain scenes in novelistic literature, like the duel in "The Master of Ballantrae," are essentially dramatic both in content and in mood.
It is somewhat simpler to trace a distinction both in content and in method between novelistic and dramatic fiction, because the latter is produced under special conditions which impose definite limitations upon the author.
The French, who are more precise than we in their use of denotative terms, are accustomed to divide their novelistic fiction into what they call the roman, the nouvelle, and the conte.
But the novelistic author, since he is at liberty to pick his auditors at will, may, if he choose, write only for the best-developed minds.
Of late, an effort has been made to break down the barrier between the novel and the drama: many stories, which have been told first in the novelistic mood, have afterward been reconstructed and retold for presentation in the theater.
But, on the other hand, it is novelistic in the emphasis it casts on individual personality,--the intimacy with which it focuses the interest not so much upon a nation as upon a man.
It is somewhat simpler to trace a distinction both in content and in mood betweennovelistic and dramatic fiction, because the latter is produced under special conditions which impose definite limitations upon the author.
But intuition of character was a forte with Miss Edgeworth and the grand secret of her novelistic success.
Indeed, some of those writers who most hold their readers have distinctly lacked this gift, which often exists independently of fine novelistic qualities.
This book is the apex of Strindberg's novelistic art.
Strindberg's novelistic treatment of lunacy has a natural profuseness of imagination, not unlike that of E.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "novelistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
