Theses novel
The theses novel , originally in French roman à thèse , is a literary scientific term for a novel whose content is determined by an ideological, scientific or religious thesis, while the credibility, coherence and liveliness of the protagonists and the story told play a subordinate role. The main purpose of the depicted people is to illustrate certain philosophical, political or religious ideas and views.
The terms theses novel and theses literature have only been in use as technical terms in literary studies since the end of the 19th century, especially in France. In general, the term theses novel has a derogatory connotation . The term is therefore usually rejected by the authors themselves, who prefer the term “novel of ideas” instead.
The theses novel is largely didactic in nature, its origins lie in the Age of Enlightenment , Voltaire with the novel Candide or Diderot with the novel Jacques the Fatalist and his Lord can be regarded as godparents . Susan Robin Suleiman equates the theses novel with an authoritarian fiction , the characteristics of which are "historical or political conditionality that is difficult to determine" and narrative techniques such as negative apprenticeship , "which always position a clear orientation center towards false secondary characters or erring heroes , which clearly evaluates (positive -negative) pronounce ", be.
According to Koenraad Geldof (1963–2009), the properties of the theses are “ teleology , redundancy , transparency , time fixation and Manichaeism ”.
Albert Camus rejects the theses novel and the tendency piece because the theses novel, the proving work, is the most hateful of all and is most often inspired by satisfied thinking.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Roman à thèse , accessed on August 12, 2014.
- ↑ Gunther Martens: Observations of Modernity in Hermann Broch's Die Schlafwandler and Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities: rhetorical and narratological aspects of interdiscursiveness. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006, p. 59. ISBN 9783770542215
- ↑ Gunther Martens: Observations of Modernity in Hermann Broch's Die Schlafwandler and Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities: rhetorical and narratological aspects of interdiscursiveness. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006, p. 54.
- ↑ Wolfgang Röd (Ed.): History of Philosophy. CH Beck, 2002, p. 313. ISBN 9783406492754
literature
- Susan Robin Suleiman: Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre. New York: Columbia University Press , 1983.
