Novel as a Cultural Narrative

Dr. Mohd Yousuf Khan; Peer Salim Jahangeer

Vol-2,Issue-6,November - December 2017

Author: Dr. Mohd Yousuf Khan, Peer Salim Jahangeer

Keywords: Culture, Era, Heritage, Mosaic, Vehicle.

Abstract: Literature is a mosaic of multicultural actions and events reflected by it in a particular era of the history. It is the best vehicle to promote and preserve the cultural heritage from generation to generation. Novel is one of the best components through which the human thoughts and feelings have been transferred from ancestors to the offspring's. As behind every book that is written lies the personality of the man who wrote it, and as behind every national literature lies the cultural characters of the race which produced it, so behind the literature of any period lie the combined forces-personal and impersonal which made the life of that period. As a whole, cultural narration is only one of the channels of literature in which the energy of an age discharges itself in its political movements, religious thoughts, philosophical speculation, art; we have the same energy overflowing into other forms of expression. The study of cultural narration of a particular period of literary era will thus take us out into the wide field of history, by which we mean the history of politics and society, manners and customs, culture and learning, philosophy and religion.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.2.6.17