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relating to or like a novel (= a long printed story about imaginary characters and events): The TV family drama had a novelistic feel to it. This book, her most famous, was a brilliant end to her novelistic career. Fewer examples. The account is meant to be a memoir, but all too often it drifts into a novelistic style.
Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.
From Wollstonecraft to Gissing: the revolutionary emergence of women, children, and labor in novelistic narrative
Jul 2, 2020 · The religious question and its attendant fideist, agnostic, and atheistic responses find novelistic expression in the works of such writers as Trollope; Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), the exponent of “Muscular Christianity”; Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), especially in Father and Son (1907); and Samuel Butler (1835-1902), particularly in Erewhon ...
Definition of novelistic adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
about the possibility of having a novelistic discourse outside of western discourse (80). At the same time Bhalchandra Nemade laments that "nearly three generations of writers were wasted because of the unenlightened idea that the novel is only what our novelists did by imitating the English models" (202).
The earliest known use of the adjective novelistic is in the 1830s. OED's earliest evidence for novelistic is from 1835, in Fraser's Magazine.
