"...the novel of ideas reflects the challenge posed by the integration of externally developed concepts long before the arrival of conceptual art"

"These came to obtrude against a set of generic expectations—nondidactic representation; a dynamic, temporally complex relation between events and the representation of events; character development; verisimilitude—established only in wake of the novel’s separation from history and romance..."

From the 1st para. Does this stuff mean anything?