By Partha Kumar Mukhopadhyay

Novel has turn into the most literary medium in today’s global. the expansion of novel in its diverse stages and over a long time has witnessed the spate of assorted theories on novel which clarify the paintings of fiction with apt dialogue of personality, plot, time, narrative, language, politics, poetics of social realism and imaginative and prescient of existence. Fiction and theories of fiction are therefore allied to every other.

Novels and theories of novels have assumed various shades and features with the improvement of post-modernism, post-colonialism and feminism. they've got left indelible marks at the progress of fiction within the glossy period.

This anthology of serious articles at the theories and practices of novel unfurls a compact exposition of alternative theoreticians’ perspectives at the advanced net and texture of novel-writing and the colours of which means as illustrated in several texts.

Besides giving a quick survey of a few significant theories of fiction, a few articles within the current ebook live on a few particular theories of fiction. The correlation among conception and its sensible program in artworks by myself can illustrate a literary paintings in all dimensions. This anthology of serious papers on a few celebrated theoreticians’ perspectives on the internet and texture of fiction additionally specializes in their myriad colors of purposes in numerous texts. The ebook hence accommodates right into a unmarried layout, discussions of the inventive approaches of fiction in addition to fictions of tolerating price and popularity.

Apart from discussing the severe principles of the conventional theoreticians of the unconventional style, this ebook additionally discusses the tips of Marxist theoreticians like Mikhail Bakhtin, George Lukács and others. From a attention of the feminist literary theories as concerning fiction, the current paintings additionally surveys the components of intertextual analyzing of novels together with move cultural conflicts and interracial relationships and psychoanalytical interpretations of novels, and within the technique analyses the novels of Barbara Kingslover, Joseph Conrad, William Golding, Amitav Ghosh, Manju Kapur, Tehmina Durrani, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri and Raja Rao.

The booklet is predicted to stimulate the scholars in addition to all severe readers of English literature to border their very own perspectives at the paintings of fiction in complete methods in an effort to simply verify varied theories and practices of fiction.

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