New Sensibility and Novel

Abstract

In this lecture I set out the possible consequences that new times, portrayed in new technologies have brought over the arts, mainly on the novel as the emblematic gender in narrative. The point of departure consists of the different avatars that the novel has experimented slowly but surely, sometimes abruptly. Take it for a fact. The particular problem here questions about the amount of transformation to resist before it turns itself into another gender not yet nominated. On the other side, there is evidence that a new dimension and atmosphere of postmodern culture has phased out the novel as central position of the arts. This center is now occupied by a combination of visual arts and its technological paraphernalia, arts in which predominates form over contents and whence the presence of the latter has been diminished. All of this occurs, without still mentioning a great amount of emergent, innovative genders, propitiated some and excited others by the new media supports. We still have to ask about the respective implications on the didactics of literature.