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Anti-Novel

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  • By rejecting traditional rules, what did anti-novels expand for literature?
    Literature's expressive possibilities.
  • Which author pushed boundaries with experimental features like detachable, colored, and blank pages?
    Samuel Beckett.
  • According to writers using the stream-of-consciousness technique, where does a person's significant existence lie?
    In their internal mental processes, rather than the external world.
  • True or False: A single, inclusive definition for the "anti-novel" is easy to find.
    False. A single, inclusive definition remains elusive because its application is so broad.
  • Virginia Woolf mastered the stream-of-consciousness technique in which two novels mentioned in the presentation?
    Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927).
  • Name two of the six defining characteristics of an anti-novel mentioned in the presentation.
    Any two of the following: No obvious plot, minimal character development, object analysis, repetitive elements, formal experiments, or time variations.
  • Which author wrote the revolutionary books Ulysses and Finnegans Wake?
    James Joyce.
  • Besides multiple perspectives, what other technique did William Faulkner use in The Sound and the Fury?
    Temporal fragmentation.
  • What is the general description of an "anti-novel"?
    It's a novel of an unconventional or untraditional type.
  • Which 18th-century work is mentioned as a notable precursor to the anti-novel?
    Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
  • What is the name of the literary method that depicts the thoughts and feelings passing through a character's mind?
    The stream-of-consciousness technique.
  • What do anti-novels often reject in terms of characterization?
    Detailed character analysis.
  • What does the French term "Nouveau Roman" mean?
    New Novel.
  • Name one of the two key figures of the Nouveau Roman movement mentioned in the presentation.
    Alain Robbe-Grillet or Nathalie Sarraute.
  • Instead of focusing on human psychology, what do Nouveau Roman writers focus on?
    The systematic analysis of objects.
  • What is the final paradox of the anti-novel mentioned in the presentation?
    In being against the novel, the anti-novel became an essential part of the novel's evolution.