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A novel interpretation.
Feb. 6th, 2008 09:50 amTalking last night about the structure of the novel, the point came up that as it developed as a form of writing in the c18/c19 novels would often be structured as first-person narratives, either as correspondences (My dear ------, things have taken another turn and as I put my pen to paper to tell you of the events of last night my hands shake...), or as some form of journal entry or storytelling ("So Carruthers and I took up our rifles and set off into the jungle to seek the lost idol of M'kenja-Bubwele.").
As a writing style this declined with the development of the novel - the first 'modern novel' is widely regarded as Cervantes' Don Quixote and that's written largely in the third person, and most novels you'll find in WHSmith now are written in the same way - the first-person narrative style of writing has declined, possibly as a result as the keeping of diaries and the writing of letters has declined too.
However, blogs are growing and novels are starting to explore the blog format with varying degrees of success - Belle du Jour, Abby Lee, Xiaolu Guo and others have all tried the blog format; some better than others. However, it's fair to say that no novel in this new format has yet achieved the same success as the first-person narratives of, say, Samuel Richardson or Arthur Conan Doyle.
So just how would classics of the old-style literary canon written in the first-person format look if written as blogs now?
A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Posted by DocWat012 Feb 4 1887
I sed i needed a new crib afta i got out and i found one!!! just out of baker street tube which is ace in a houseshare with some sort of police consultant but hes acecool. hes always chopping lines of columbian candy and then goin out hopped up an solvin crimes. hes totaly pimp. chicks dig him but he always cuts them - hes the chilldaddy no kiddin.
las nite her took me along as im a doctor an maybe could help an there was so much blood! this guy had been killed but homes said it was 'ellementary'. he can be a bit smug at times.
Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson
Posted by charlo feb 4 1747
omg lovelace is hottt!!1!. i mean totaly squee hottt. the rents sa hes no gud n i should go out w solmes but hes totaly gross. hes fat n gash n like ova 20 n stuff n i rekin hes jus afta the folds granda lef me. the rents hav totaly grounded me until i sa i wont go out wiv lovelace agin but were jus jammin so i think theyre jus bein old. Lovelace sez i shud sneke out an run off w him as hes got a nu car and its mint. i reckin ill go an say hi but nothin more cos i want 2 pla it cool an see if he'l wait 4 me lol
clarissa n lovelace 4eva <3<3<3<3
As a writing style this declined with the development of the novel - the first 'modern novel' is widely regarded as Cervantes' Don Quixote and that's written largely in the third person, and most novels you'll find in WHSmith now are written in the same way - the first-person narrative style of writing has declined, possibly as a result as the keeping of diaries and the writing of letters has declined too.
However, blogs are growing and novels are starting to explore the blog format with varying degrees of success - Belle du Jour, Abby Lee, Xiaolu Guo and others have all tried the blog format; some better than others. However, it's fair to say that no novel in this new format has yet achieved the same success as the first-person narratives of, say, Samuel Richardson or Arthur Conan Doyle.
So just how would classics of the old-style literary canon written in the first-person format look if written as blogs now?
A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Posted by DocWat012 Feb 4 1887
I sed i needed a new crib afta i got out and i found one!!! just out of baker street tube which is ace in a houseshare with some sort of police consultant but hes acecool. hes always chopping lines of columbian candy and then goin out hopped up an solvin crimes. hes totaly pimp. chicks dig him but he always cuts them - hes the chilldaddy no kiddin.
las nite her took me along as im a doctor an maybe could help an there was so much blood! this guy had been killed but homes said it was 'ellementary'. he can be a bit smug at times.
Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson
Posted by charlo feb 4 1747
omg lovelace is hottt!!1!. i mean totaly squee hottt. the rents sa hes no gud n i should go out w solmes but hes totaly gross. hes fat n gash n like ova 20 n stuff n i rekin hes jus afta the folds granda lef me. the rents hav totaly grounded me until i sa i wont go out wiv lovelace agin but were jus jammin so i think theyre jus bein old. Lovelace sez i shud sneke out an run off w him as hes got a nu car and its mint. i reckin ill go an say hi but nothin more cos i want 2 pla it cool an see if he'l wait 4 me lol
clarissa n lovelace 4eva <3<3<3<3
