LITERATURE •• PETER VAN GORSEL - 7 May 2012
Storytelling 3.0
Reality beats fiction OR getting down on what is really real
Contemporary fiction derives its form conventions and rules from the 18th century emerging as a dominant art form for the, mainly female, middle classes. Stories charged with morally, religious and socially acceptable behaviour and heroic adventure were all distributed under the label novel. These stories helped readers to understand and navigate their stratified society. Sweeping stories “novelised” by authors such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Balzac where in most cases the stories which were serialised in newspapers and magazines with huge circulation; thus predating 20th century TV series as an addictive, intrusive and combined form of content and distribution. These stories with their rambling formats of plot, characters, scenes and dialogue, created the big novel, supplied the ammunition for the 19th and 20th century global publishing industry, and provided the model for the Hollywood movie industry. This genre can seem to saturate and overtax its readership with more novels being published every year than the average person can read in a lifetime……
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