Prosa - Types

Long Fiction:

Historical classification:

1) The picaresque novel:
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quijote de la Mancha
H. Fielding – Tom Jones

2) The chivalric novel:
W. Scott – Ivanhoe

3) The gothic novel:
H. Walpole – The castle of Otranto
E. A. Poe

4) The pastoral novel:
Philip Sidney – Arcadia
George Eliot – Adam Bede

Classification according to milieu:

1) The novel of the soil:
E. Caldwell – Tobacco road

2) The family novel:
S. Richardson – Pamela

Classification according to subject matter:

1) The historical novel:
Tolstoy – War and peace
Stendhal – The red and the black
Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

2) The utopian novel:
Thomas More – Utopia
Francis Bacon – New Atlantis
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s travells

3) The fantastic novel:
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s travells
Stephen King, Jules Verne

4) The science fiction novel:
I. Asimov, A Clark, M. Crichton, J. Verne

5) The novel of adventure:
R. L. Stevenson – Treasure island
Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer

6) The detective novel:
E. A. Poe – The golden bug
A. Christie

7) The novel of travel:
D. Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
G. Forster – The journey around the world

8) The psychological novel:
W. M. Thackeray, J. Joyce, V. Woolf

9) The biographical novel:
Irving Stone – Lust for life

10) The autobiographical novel:

11) The problem novel:
H. B. Stowe – Uncle Tom’s cabine

12) The roman a clef:
R. P. Warren – All the king’s men
W. Langland

13) The proletarian novel:
J. Steinbeck

Classification according to the technique of composition:

1) The epistolary novel:
S. Richardson – Pamela
S. Richardson – Clarissa

2) The roman fleuve:
J. Galsworthy – The Forsyte saga
H. de Balzac – Comedie humaine

3) The stream of consciousness novel:
J. Joyce – Ulysses
V. Woolf, D. Richardson

4) The anti – novel:
J. Joyce, V. Woolf

Classification according to function:

1) The didactic novel:

2) The tendentious novel:

3) The bildungs roman:
C. Dickens – David Coperfield
H. Fielding – Tom Jones

4) The kuenstlerroman:
J. Joyce – A portrait of the artist as a young man

5) The philosophical novel:
Voltaire – Candide

Classification according to the elaboration of theme:

1) The humorous novel:
C. Dickens – Pickwick papers
Ben Johnson – Every man in his humour

2) The satirical novel:
G. B. Shaw

3) The experimental novel:
V. Woolf, D. M. Richardson

4) The journalistic novel:
Classification according to the stream of thought

1) The sentimental novel:
S. Richardson – Pamela
S.

Richardson – Clarissa Harlow

2) The romantic novel:
W. Scott, R. W. Emerson

3) The realistic novel:
C. Dickens, H. G. Wells, A. Huxley, S. L. Clemens (M. Twain), W. Whitman, H. B. Stowe, J. Kirkland, U. Sinclair, F. S. Fitzgerald, E. Hemingway, W. Faulkner, J. Steinbeck, J. D. Salinger, N. Mailer

4) The naturalistic novel:
G. Moore, S. Crane, J. London, T. Dreiser, J. Dos Passos

5) The existential novel:
S. Bellow, R. Ellison, W. Styron, R. Wright

Intermediate fiction:

1) The novellete:
G. Chaucer – The Canterbury tales
E. A. Poe, C. Doyle

2) The short story:
E. A. Poe – Tales of the grotesque and arabesque
W. Irwing, N. Hawthorne

3) The fabliau:
G. Chaucer – The Canterbury tales

4) The exemplum:
G. Chaucer – The Canterbury tales

5) The legend:

6) The idyll:
A. Tennyson – Idylls of the king
E. Spenser, A. Pope, R. Steele

7) The myth:
J. Joyce – Ulysses
J. Joyce – Finnegan’s wake
J. Updike – Kentaur

Minor fiction:

1) The fable:
James Thurber – Fables of our time, and famous poems illustrated
James Thurber – Further fables for our time
J. Dryden – Fables, ancient and modern
John Gay – Fables

2) The parable:
E. Hemingway – The old man and the sea
New Testament

3) The bestiary:
? – Bestiaries
? – The book of beasts

4) The fairy tale:
W. M. Thackeray, O. Wilde

Between fiction and fact:

1) The essay:
J. Dryden – Essay of dramatick poesie
F. Bacon – The essays, or councels, civill and morall
D. Locke – Essay concerning human understanding

2) The book review:

3) The travelogue:
G. Forster – The journey around the world
T. More - Utopia

4) The pamphlet:
J. Milton, F. Bacon, J. Swift, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau

5) The biography:
W. Churchil, L. Ullman



(Štefan Franko – Theory of Anglophonic Literatures).