| identify the economic, social, and political developments which played a significant part in the emergence of the novel as a literary genre in a literary, theoretical, or historical context. |
| discuss the causality between the end of tragedy both as a genre and a form and the rise of the novel both as a genre and a form either verbally or in a research paper. |
| analyse a novel in terms of character, setting, theme, plot, narrative etc. in an essay. |
| explain the major characteristics of realist novels such as the emphasis of bourgeois epistemology, mimetic representation, linearity, teleological drive, causality, closure, and binary logic verbally or in a research paper. |
| compare and contrast the novel genre with previous literary genres such as romance and epic in a research paper. |