The form of novel has changed a lot since the development of Modernism, Postmodernism and Deconstruction from 20th Century.

20世纪以来，随着现代主义、后现代主义和解构主义思潮的兴起，小说这一文学形式发生了很大的变化。

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The writers of new sensitive group exquisitely depict a lot about "westernized love" in the form of novel when "westernized love" is getting fashionable.

新感觉派作家在“洋场爱”渐成时尚之际，适时地以小说的形式对“洋场爱”进行了大量的、精细的描写和展示。

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The novel achieves a perfection of form that is quite new.

小说的形式新颖完美。

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Other ideas for new uses come from the physical form of Atwater's novel design.

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This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."

这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏，就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“

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As scriptwriter, Mr Yong partly retains the epistolary form of the novel and can turn a witty phrase.

ECONOMIST: Morals and scandal

Well, the engineers at SSTL and the University of Surrey think the technology in Kinect could form the basis of a novel in-orbit proximity sensor and docking system.

BBC: Thinking outside the box in space

The cartoonish results, which approach cacophony, echo the brazen visual form of the graphic novel.

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