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Contemporary Novel

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Contemporary Novel at University of Kent

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.kent.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Definitions and quotes

Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.
Novel
All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.
Michael Chabon in Henry Jenkins; Wyn Kelley; Katie Clinton (2013). Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom. Teachers College Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-8077-5401-6. 
Novel
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored"—"I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare—that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.
E. M. Forster, Selected Letters (1985), letter 104, to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912
Novel
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
Cory Doctorow in Steven D. Price (13 December 2013). The Little Black Book of Writers' Wisdom. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-62636-514-8. 
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