A famous author once claimed that all his books were psychological novels. He argued that they were lengthy narratives told through the eyes and words of characters and if these characters were credible the novel must be psychological at least in the sense that it depicted credible human behavior.
A mark of human intelligence is that the world is organized in categories. This helps the mind to distinguish between the concrete and the abstract. In the field of literature carious works are organized according to the characteristics that they exhibit. Novels are all works of prose fiction but within that category there are various sub categories.
When authors focus on the interior workings of the minds of fictional characters they can be safely said to be trying to write psychological novels. The writer's intention is an important element in the book that he creates. If he succeeds in depicting behavior that is both credible and instructive then he may have succeeded.
Fiction writers employ the imagination rather than science to depict how human beings behave but that does not mean that they are off the mark. Trained psychologists will often be able to verify that the way characters in fiction behave is either psychologically authentic, or otherwise.
Romance tales tell of characters who belong to different genders coming together despite difficulties as people do. Jane Austen's characters are driven by exactly the same sort of prejudices that do drive people and they have ego needs that are recognized as true to real people. However, Austen's primary intention is to tell romantic stories.
The writers of action or adventure tales also have clear intentions. Their purposes are to entertain by writing stories that move rapidly between phases of action, rising and falling with increasing intensity until a climax is reached, preferably on the last page. Development of characters who truly reflect human behavior can impede the the adventure writer's purpose and so he may choose to employ a wooden, or flat character who always behaves in a predictable way.
Every author must tell his story in a chosen way and from a particular point of view. The 'stream of consciousness' method is suitable for demonstrating how a mind works. A narrative unfolds in the form of an individual's apprehension of his world as he goes about the business of his life. The author attempts to exclude himself entirely from the tale and tell it as though everything is seen fro a protagonists point of view.
The suspense thriller might be the kind of book that combines action and insight. A gripping narrative unfolds as a reader follows the workings of a mind that is possibly deranged or obsessive. Action moves inexorably to a climax that occurs against a setting of human behavior.
Psychological novels, like all similar works, attempt to entertain and instruct through the medium of fiction. They succeed on the first count if readers are able to suspend their disbelief and imagine that they are in the world of a novels as they read it. They succeed on the count of instruction if critics and ordinary readers know, after reading the work, that it is a slice of true life.
A mark of human intelligence is that the world is organized in categories. This helps the mind to distinguish between the concrete and the abstract. In the field of literature carious works are organized according to the characteristics that they exhibit. Novels are all works of prose fiction but within that category there are various sub categories.
When authors focus on the interior workings of the minds of fictional characters they can be safely said to be trying to write psychological novels. The writer's intention is an important element in the book that he creates. If he succeeds in depicting behavior that is both credible and instructive then he may have succeeded.
Fiction writers employ the imagination rather than science to depict how human beings behave but that does not mean that they are off the mark. Trained psychologists will often be able to verify that the way characters in fiction behave is either psychologically authentic, or otherwise.
Romance tales tell of characters who belong to different genders coming together despite difficulties as people do. Jane Austen's characters are driven by exactly the same sort of prejudices that do drive people and they have ego needs that are recognized as true to real people. However, Austen's primary intention is to tell romantic stories.
The writers of action or adventure tales also have clear intentions. Their purposes are to entertain by writing stories that move rapidly between phases of action, rising and falling with increasing intensity until a climax is reached, preferably on the last page. Development of characters who truly reflect human behavior can impede the the adventure writer's purpose and so he may choose to employ a wooden, or flat character who always behaves in a predictable way.
Every author must tell his story in a chosen way and from a particular point of view. The 'stream of consciousness' method is suitable for demonstrating how a mind works. A narrative unfolds in the form of an individual's apprehension of his world as he goes about the business of his life. The author attempts to exclude himself entirely from the tale and tell it as though everything is seen fro a protagonists point of view.
The suspense thriller might be the kind of book that combines action and insight. A gripping narrative unfolds as a reader follows the workings of a mind that is possibly deranged or obsessive. Action moves inexorably to a climax that occurs against a setting of human behavior.
Psychological novels, like all similar works, attempt to entertain and instruct through the medium of fiction. They succeed on the first count if readers are able to suspend their disbelief and imagine that they are in the world of a novels as they read it. They succeed on the count of instruction if critics and ordinary readers know, after reading the work, that it is a slice of true life.
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