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Questions to analyze narrative texts

Questions for the Analysis of Historical Novels

  1. What is this novel about?
  2. Is this a historical novel? If so, defend your answer.
  3. Is this an autobiographical novel? If so, defend your answer.
  4. What is the chronology of the novel?
  5. Whose story is it?
  6. What is the basic conflict?
  7. What are the characteristics of the narrative voice(s)?
  8. Who is the Focalizer?
  9. What is the historical context of the novel?
  10. Identify the metahistory categories,as they apply to the novel
  11. emplotment

    romance

    tragedy

    comedy

    satire

    epistemology

    formist

    mechanist

    organicist

    contextualist

    Ideology:

    anarchist

    radical

    conservative

    liberal

    Tropes

    metaphor

    metonymy

    synecdoche

    irony

  12. Does the novel subvert, revise questions or validate the official historical versions?
  13. Why did author write the novel?
  14. How are sexual/gender roles assigned?
  15. How does the novel deal with issues of nationalism and identity?
  16. Why do we keep on reading the story?

Prof. John S. Brushwood designed this list. I have modified to fit this course goals and objectives. MM