English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… Rivalry If Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books (1704), which depicted a literal battle among books located in the King’s Library, served as an allegory of an ongoing intellectual debate between the ‘Ancients’ and the ‘Moderns’, the … theory and practice of those considered as the founders of the genre in England. These conflictual manifestations – taking the form of antagonism and of textual, rather than physical, confrontation – appear rather unifying, paradoxically: … there on, the objective set for the novel consisted in admitting its fictional status and tending toward a different kind of ‘realism’, in order to effectively convey, as projected, an accurate sense of reality. Lastly, the third axis …
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