Thinking about how weird it would sound if critics talked about "the poem" they way they do "the novel"
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Also, we have the collective term "poetry" (just like we have the collective term "drama" or "theater," so no one talks about "the play"). There isn't one for novels.
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“Fiction”? (Obviously it encompasses more than novels but drama also encompasses more than plays)
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That ancient, widely held belief is technically known as "the myth".
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but it's not "the myth" in point of fact: it's "myth"
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I don’t understand why that would affect whether the word takes a singular or a plural
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Well, I think fact long-form prose fiction has historical trajectory makes it easier to talk about as something definitive ("the" novel) rather than general (poetry). I could be wrong!
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what is this form though? is it written? not? what are its technical characteristics? and if it's a form, are there other transhistorical forms? this idea of an ur-form associated with poetry is persistent but largely a myth
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The novel was invented in the west by Cervantes, with Don Quixote in 1605. Some consider the Japanese The Tale of the Genji, circa 1000, the world’s first novel.
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Exactly.
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