Questions to analyze narrative texts
Questions for the Analysis of Historical Novels
- What is this novel about?
- Is this a historical novel? If so, defend your answer.
- Is this an autobiographical novel? If so, defend your answer.
- What is the chronology of the novel?
- Whose story is it?
- What is the basic conflict?
- What are the characteristics of the narrative voice(s)?
- Who is the Focalizer?
- What is the historical context of the novel?
- Identify the metahistory categories,as they apply to the novel
- Does the novel subvert, revise questions or validate the official historical versions?
- Why did author write the novel?
- How are sexual/gender roles assigned?
- How does the novel deal with issues of nationalism and identity?
- Why do we keep on reading the story?
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emplotment |
romance |
tragedy |
comedy |
satire |
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epistemology |
formist |
mechanist |
organicist |
contextualist |
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Ideology: |
anarchist |
radical |
conservative |
liberal |
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Tropes |
metaphor |
metonymy |
synecdoche |
irony |
Prof. John S. Brushwood designed this list. I have modified to fit this course goals and objectives. MM