Amer Rasool Mahdi, I., Ph.D, (2016). Parallel Narratives and the Question of Novelness in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Reading of its Genre. Alustath, 1(216), 1-12.
Instr. Amer Rasool Mahdi; Ph.D. "Parallel Narratives and the Question of Novelness in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Reading of its Genre". Alustath, 1, 216, 2016, 1-12.
Amer Rasool Mahdi, I., Ph.D, (2016). 'Parallel Narratives and the Question of Novelness in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Reading of its Genre', Alustath, 1(216), pp. 1-12.
Amer Rasool Mahdi, I., Ph.D, Parallel Narratives and the Question of Novelness in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Reading of its Genre. Alustath, 2016; 1(216): 1-12.

Parallel Narratives and the Question of Novelness in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Reading of its Genre

Alustath
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 216, July 2018, Pages 1-12
Authors
Instr. Amer Rasool Mahdi;
Abstract
The present study attempts to probe into a genre reading of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim Progress as this is deemed as one of the founding texts in English letters. It thus tries to have Bunyan's work re-contextualised within the historical and formal debate of the rise of the novel and the very idea of Novelness. Within the framework and practice of novelness, it is proposed here that formal (generic) self-consciousness is pre-structured within the allegorical renditions of the human condition; these renditions are more likely to be seen as gearing toward being part of the pre- or parallel-history of the novel vis-à-vis the debatable norms of formal realism.
Keywords: parallel narratives, inclusionism, novelness, meta-allegory.
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