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INTRODUCTION The work, So Long a Letterby Mariama Ba, is a novella which is one of the types of prose fiction. This means that it is longer than the short story we discussed in the last […] […]

INTRODUCTION Pride and Prejudiceis a novel by Jane Austen. You can see from the date that it waswritten centuries ago having been first published in 1813, as her second novel. You will recall our discussion on characterization […] […]

INTRODUCTION The Ghanaian novelist, AyiKweiArmah, in this novel, The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born presents an obvious reaction to the perceived hopelessness he found in his nation. He did not seem to see the beautiful ones […] […]

INTRODUCTION In the following articles, you will be introduced to the most popular literary genre, the novel. We read novels at various occasions for various reasons. Sometimes, we read the novel to enjoy the story, […] […]

INTRODUCTION Most literary scholars define the novel as a coherent unified, fictitious prose narrative, with a beginning a middle and an end, and with the “… materials deployed in such a way as to give […] […]

INTRODUCTION In the previous article, we learnt that it is difficult to trace the origin of the novel to a particular early fiction in verse or narrative. The novel as a genre of literature therefore emerged […] […]

INTRODUCTION  In this article, we will discuss some of the earliest English novelists and their contribution to the development of the English novel. There is a controversy on the novels that comprises the earliest English […] […]

INTRODUCTION Which is the first English novel? Do we really have a particular prose fictional work that can conveniently be referred to as the first English novel? Many scholars refer to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe […] […]