The Soulflakes

  UNIT-V DIASPORIC NOVEL   Diaspora The term "diaspora" comes from an ancient Greek word meaning "to scatter about". And that's exactly what the people of a diaspora do they scatter from their homeland to places across the globe, spreading their culture as they go. The Bible refers to the Diaspora of Jews exiled from Israel by the Babylonians.   ESSAY   1. Introduction The word 'diaspora' originally means "to scatter or sow across". Diasporas are characterized by the relationship between the dispersed people and their original homeland to which they crave to desert. It may be the forced or voluntary migration from one's homeland. The important paradox of diaspora is that dwelling 'here' assumes a connection 'there'.   2. Origin The Oxford English Dictionary traces its origin to a reference in the Old Testament to the dispersal of people of Israel across the world. The classic definition of diaspora thus refe...

  UNIT-V SCIENCE FICTION   Introduction Science Fiction is applied to those narratives in which an explicit attempt is made to render plausible the fictional world by reference to known or imagined scientific principle or to a projected advance in technology, or to a drastic change in the organization of society.   ESSAY 1. Introduction Science fiction encompasses novels that represent an imagined reality that is radically different in its nature and functioning from the world of our ordinary experience. Often the setting is another planet, or this earth projected into the future, or an imagined parallel universe.   2. 'Sci-fi Science fiction is a form of literary fantasy or romance that often draws upon earlier kinds of utopian writing. The term 'SF or Sci-fi' was first given by Hugo Garns-back, editor of the Amazing Stories.   3. Origin and Development Mary Shelley's remarkable Frankenstein (1818) is often considered a precursor of science fi...

  UNIT-V DETECTIVE NOVEL   Definition Detective Story A novel or short story in which the plot is based on the solution, by a detective, of the mystery surrounding a crime that has been committed.   ESSAY 1. Introduction Detective Novel is a story in which the principal action and focus of interest is the investigation of a crime by a detective figure, either professional or amateur. The emphasis in these stories lies upon the actions of a crime's perpetrator or victim.   2. Crime subject Conventionally, the crime should be an especially baffling case. It requires the uncommon ingenuity of the detective to find a solution. He should also be able to identify or pin the blame on the true perpetrator who commonly has an apparently safe alibi or has left a false trail incriminating others. Various kinds of crimes are possible subjects, although murder and perfectly multiple murder involving the elimination of witnesses to the original crime, has been foun...

  UNIT-V SOCIAL NOVEL   Introduction The Social Novel emphasizes the influence of the Social and economic conditions of an era on shaping characters and determining events. (e.g. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin).   ESSAY 1. Introduction A Social Novel is a form of the 'problem novel" which centres its principal attention on the nature, function and effect of the society in which the characters live and on the social forces playing upon them. Usually the social novel presents a thesis and argues for it as a resolution to a social problem.   2. Examination of social issues Usually the social or sociological novel presents a thesis (sometimes called thesis novel) and argues for it as a resolution to a social problem. Social novel is a phrase used to describe mid-19th century fiction which examined specific abuses and hardships that affected the working classes.   3. Dickens’ focus on social evils Novels dealing with the social problems...

 UNIT V NOVEL HISTORICAL NOVEL   Introduction A novel in which the characters, setting and actions are based on the records of a locality, a nation or a people. Although history has always been used in fiction, the historical novel, as such, did not appear until well into the eighteenth century. Among the well-known writers of historical novels are Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Rede.   ESSAY 1. Introduction Historical novel is a narrative which utilizes history to present an imaginative reconstruction of events, using either fictional or historical personages or both. While considerable latitude is permitted to the historical novelist, he generally attempts, sometimes aided by considerable research, to recreate, with some accuracy the pageantry and drama of the events he deals with.   2. Historical facts forms the background The historical novel is based on the historical facts out all that is described in a historical no...