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commenting on it, and the novelists' incorporation of their own experiences into works and characters can lead to the author's personal life and identity being associated with a novel's fictional content. For this reason, the environment within which a novelist works and the reception of their novels
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or costumbrismo was active from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, which is considered equivalent to
American literary regionalism. It used a realist style to portray the scenes, language, customs and manners of the country the writer was from, especially the lower and
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titled "What is a novelist?"; he says that the novelist's "honesty is bound to the vile stake of his megalomania The work is not simply everything a novelist writes-notebooks, diaries, articles. It is the end result of long labor on an aesthetic projectThe novelist is the sole master of his work. He
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Novelists apply a number of different methods to writing their novels, relying on a variety of approaches to inspire creativity. Some communities actively encourage amateurs to practice writing novels to develop these unique practices, that vary from author to author. For example, the internet-based
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writing in 1965 for in her essay "Must the
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in his essay "Society, Morality, and the Novel", sees the novelist as needing to "re-create reality in the forms which his personal vision assumes as it plays and struggles with the vivid illusory "eidetic-like" imagery left in the mind's eye by the process of social change." However, Ellison also
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attributes the primary contemporary meaning of "a writer of novels" as first appearing in the 1633 book "East-India
Colation" by C. Farewell citing the passage "It beeing a pleasant observation (at a distance) to note the order of their Coaches and Carriages..As if (presented to a Novelist) it had
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says that many authors, especially authors who usually write literary fiction, worry about "the danger that genre is a cul-de-sac" where publishers will only publish similar genre fiction from that author because of reader expectations, "and that once a writer turns into it, he'll never get out."
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printing bound books for a fee paid by the writer. In these settings, unlike the more traditional publishing industry, activities usually reserved for a publishing house, like the distribution and promotion of the book, become the author's responsibility. The rise of the
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began writing at eleven, and at sixteen completed his first novel, "The
Hungarian Lift-Jet", about international arms dealers, "in pencil in a larger-than-foolscap log book". However, he was thirty before he published his first novel, the highly controversial
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recognizes other definitions of novelist, first appearing in the 16th and 17th centuries to refer to either "An innovator (in thought or belief); someone who introduces something new or who favours novelty" or "An inexperienced person; a novice." However, the
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or left wing sympathizers, and seen as a "device of revolution". However, the
British tradition of working class literature, unlike the Russian and American, was not especially inspired by the Communist Party, but had its roots in the
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is his work." The close intimacy of identity with the novelist's work ensures that particular elements, whether for class, gender, sexuality, nationality, race, or place-based identity, will influence the reception of their work.
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America consciousness at the beginning of the 20th century while becoming linked as an individual to his depiction of that space.
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as the exception rather than the norm. Other critics and writers defending the merits of genre fiction often point towards King as an example of bridging the gap between popular genres and literary merit.
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established themselves in print, some authors can make steady income as long as they remain productive as writers. Additionally, many novelists, even published ones, will take on outside work, such as
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and were some of the most popular in all of Europe during the subsequent century. Scott's novels were influential in recreating a
Scottish identity that the upper-class British society could embrace.
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article titled "The agony of the male novelist" that midlist male novelists are less likely to find success than midlist female novelist, even though men tend to dominate "literary fiction" spaces.
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in favor of representing a "myriad of impressions" created in experience life. Her definition made in this essay, and developed in others, helped define the literary movement of
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published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work.
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by both the public and publishers can be influenced by their demographics or identity. Similarly, some novelists have creative identities derived from their focus on different
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led to an original literature based on the continent's natural elements, mostly epic and foundational. It was strongly influenced by the wars of independence from
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spend considerable time examining how masculinity shapes and effects the works, because of its prominence within fiction from the Victorian period.
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culture in the South has also produced a strong focus by novelists from there on the significance of family, religion, community, the use of the
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