Civic Storytelling : The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature

"Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature's role in life and society? In order to explain their rapid ascent to such importance, Florian Fuchs identifies an essential role of literature, a role tra...

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Auteur principal: Fuchs, Florian, 1984-
Format: Livre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: New York : Zone Books 2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris
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Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Edition sous un autre format:• Civic Storytelling, The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature, Florian Fuchs, 2023, New York, Zone Books, 1 volume (319 pages), 978-1-9421-3074-1
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: two ontologies of prose literature, short form versus novel
  • I - The 'ars topica', its disappearance, and its afterlife
  • II - After the 'ars topica': the failed return of the fable in modernity
  • III - Form: the novella and the agency of short narrative forms
  • IV - Argumentation: the proverb as micronarrative agency
  • V - Perception: the fairy tale as topical archive
  • VI - Epiphanies, enacted stories, and the praxeology of short forms
  • VII - Coda: civic storytelling and the postliterary image life
  • Acknowledments
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index