APPUNTI SU ROMANZO

The novel is a narrative form of communication and there is a story line that tells about situations connected to the story told. The story is verbalized by different narrative techniques. You can have a third person narrator. He can be external, omniscient, intrusive and omniscient (when he is inside the text). He can speak from the point of view of a character or adopt the interior monologue of a character, or he can also use the stream of consciousness technique. He can use telling or showing or he can be a first person narrator or the first person narrator, who is also the protagonist, the eye-witness and the narrator himself.

The setting consists of references to space and time also investigated from the symbolic or metaphorical point of view. A traditional element of the novel is the character. A character can be either a flat character or a round character that shows a development along the story. Novels are written to be read and therefore the novelist, who speaks through his literary choices, as always an ideal reader in mind. the novel has also being also considered the narrative of character par excellence.

The analysis of the characterization consider how a character comes to life. A narrator can choose different elements to portrait his character. The elements of characterization are: name, surname, language used or dialect used, way of thinking, way of speaking, cultural background, family background, physical description, reputation and peculiarity. While the textual analysis is not a summary.

The analysis of a novel starts with a brainstorming on the title of the monologue (expectation and curiosity raise by the title). Then the structure is very important: chatters, scene or no scenes and no chatters at all. Each chatter is organised into sequences. Each sequence has got a specific function in the economy of the chatter.

After that you should take into considerations the referring to the elements already quoted and from all the connotative levels, language sounds, choice of words, verb tenses used, metaphors and alike (semantic level), word order or sintax (sintactical level) and all the figures of speech.

The novel was born in the 18^th century. Robinson Crusoe is considered the English archetype of the novel. In English there are 2 words : NOVEL (literary communication form that tells about something, s the reader may suspend disbelief and be convinced that the novel tells about life) and ROMANCE (more connected to story of functions, fairy tales, virtual love story).