"novel emphasis" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it any time you want to refer to a different approach or focus in an idea, argument, or task. For example, "The new CEO has placed a novel emphasis on innovation, which has improved the company's performance significantly."
There is a novel emphasis in Clegg's tactics on pre-school intervention, reflecting the work of academics such as Nobel Laureate James Heckman, and in Britain the studies undertaken at Bristol University.
Subsequently appointed commander in chief of the southern army, Suvorov set about molding it according to principles he set out in his celebrated military treatise, Nauka pobezhdat (Science of Victory)—remarkable for its clipped, colloquial style, its novel emphasis on speed and mobility, and the use of the bayonet and accuracy of fire.
Pioneer Girl offers more history and less fiction: it is presented as Wilder first wrote it, complete with asides to her daughter, no section breaks, and spelling mistakes (an ironic aspect for readers who remember the novels' emphasis on Laura's spelling bee triumphs).
In his discussion of science and religion in the novel, John Glendening notes that both character commentary on Darwin's publications along with the epigraphs mentioning those works as direct contributor's to the novels emphasis on science superseding religion.
In that fast-changing city, the director began to understand the novel's emphasis on Australian rootlessness and restlessness, neglect of history and eagerness to forget the past.
Did you notice how in the description of Mitchell's novel, the emphasis is placed on the literary attributes of the story adventurous, Nabokovian, character-driven, and so on?
Where naturalism rejects the spiritual and psychological in favour of behaviouristic observation, Alas's novels avoid emphasis on the physiological; they instead sensitively explore the tormented psyches of a soul in disintegration (La Regenta) and of a quester who loses his way (His Only Son).
"This is not a novel with much emphasis on plot.
WE is a science fiction novel with the emphasis on the science.
Writers who once would have been considered outsiders — Ellison, Baldwin, Bellow, Roth, and Mailer — became central, producing works that fused the novel's traditional emphasis on the social with a newfound fascination with the psychological.
What makes her interpretation of the role so novel is its emphasis on Amanda's strength as a single mother, on her hard-won maternal pride, which is often lost or minimized in revivals, perhaps because male directors tend to equate female caregiving with sentimentality.
