عنوان المقال عربي
رواية الأجيال: إشكالية المصطلحات وتشكل النوع الروائي
Abstract
The generations novel is a narrative genre that draws its artistic origins from the system of the tragic circle as presented by Aeschylus’s satyr tetralogy in Greek literature in the motif of the family curse passed down from generation to generation, and the series of heroic exploits of the Knights of the Round Table in medieval literature in the Arthurian sagas. Despite the difference between the aesthetic traditions established by Balzac in French realism in his novel (The Human Comedy), the scientific experimental tendency in Zola’s naturalism in (The Rougon-Macquarts) has enriched the formal characteristics of the generations novel in the founding stage and beyond, especially in the idea of a comprehensive depiction of family life and monitoring the movement of generations in their formation and collapse according to the principles of social determinism in critical realism or class struggle in socialist realism or national victory in national idealism. The temporal absorption of historical development in monitoring the fates of the family remained distributed between benefiting from the tragic depth of the quatrains or drawing inspiration from the idea of historical roles in popular epics: because they constitute A major axis in the aesthetic structure of the generational novel is that whose events extend over successive generations of people, preoccupying them with their affairs and the affairs of their descendants and grandchildren.
Keywords
Generations novel, the problem of terminology, the formation of the novel genre
Recommended Citation
Youssef, Hamza Fadel and Karim, Hussein Majad Abdul
(2025)
"Generations Novel: The Problem of Terminology and the Formation of the Novel Genre,"
Uruk for Humanities: Vol. 9:
Iss.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://muthuruk.mu.edu.iq/journal/vol9/iss3/1
