To start our month of looking at the novel, you need to know the ways in which Jane Smiley looks at the novel in her book. She read 100 novels (check out the list at www.smiley100.com) over three years and the entire second half of 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel is devoted to her insights into each of those 100 novels.
From the table of contents of 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel:
- What is a Novel?
- Who is a Novelist?
- The Origins of the Novel
- The Psychology of the Novel
- Morality and the Novel
- The Art of the Novel
- The Novel and History
- The Circle of the Novel
- A Novel of Your Own (in two parts)
Add in Smiley’s Introduction, a study of her novel: Good Faith, and the final chapter: Reading a Hundred Novels, and we have 13 ways of looking at the novel.
So… how do you look at a novel?
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Kickoff: The 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel