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Jun 25, 2020 · The so-called novel of ideas is a serious enterprise. But what if a susceptibility to the gimmick is the one feature that defines the genre?
Sep 15, 2015 · A novel with ideas is one thing: Any good novel, and indeed any bad novel, has plenty. A novel of ideas is something else. Ideas, after all, so easily slide into ideology.
23 votes, 52 comments. Wikipedia describes novel of ideas as a subgenre of philosophical fiction . My personal favorites would be Sophie's World and…
Jul 6, 2017 · Wikipedia calls the novel of ideas a subgenre of philosophical fiction, without defining the first term. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (2010) uses the terms "novel of ideas" and "philosophical novel" interchangeably.
Sep 5, 2019 · Novels must have ideas to be any good, but Novels of Ideas are rarely any good. This is one of the fundamental paradoxes of writing fiction. The goal of the Novel of Ideas is usually noble, devoted to educating the reading public about one crisis or another, as espoused by the author.
Apr 24, 2018 · We can define the novel of ideas not according to an inherited standard of, say, Augie March or White Noise, but according to standards we can more actively and conscientiously define. There is an opportunity, I think, to bring a freshness and inclusivity to the study of the novel.
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May 9, 2018 · Andy Seal’s recent post about intellectual history and the novel of ideas has been on my mind for a week, and I’m still thinking through the many questions it and the thread that followed it raised. Is the novel of ideas an under-explored realm for intellectual history?
