The Dramatic Novel from Terminology and Characteristics to the Formation of Vision

The dramatic genre is one of the literary genres that infiltrated the novel genre. The novel attempted to portray life and reality by borrowing the dramatic simulation method. The more it aimed to represent reality vividly, the more the dramatic elements increased and dominated.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a proliferation of dramatic elements in the novel after Henry James emphasized the necessity of dramatizing reality within it. He saw this method as primarily aesthetic, allowing you to experience the event as if it were happening in front of you, more beautiful than hearing about it afterward. James derived this critical aesthetic judgment from Aristotle, who preferred tragedy over epic, as the former is based on representation, condensation, cohesive unity, and richness of its composite elements. Tragedy achieves complete simulation with the least amount of time and events possible.These artistic characteristics were what Henry James attempted to exploit in a new narrative art primarily based on "showing" while "telling" connects the narrative scenes.Since Henry James, drama decisively entered the novel genre as a dominant aesthetic component. Consequently, a new narrative type emerged, combining elements of the novel and drama, which we might call the dramatic novel or the novel with dramatic elements. This development was aided by various political, economic, and social circumstances in Europeparticularly in Englandleading to its maturity and subsequent prevalence.