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Free Download Florian Fuchs, "Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature"
English | ISBN: 1942130740 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 27 MB
A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature's political role for the twenty-first century
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 traditionally performed within classical civic discourse of storytelling, by looking at new or updated forms of this civic practice in modernity. Fuchs's focus in this groundbreaking book is on the fate of topical speech, on what is exchanged between participants in argument or conversation as opposed to rhetorical speech, which emanates from and ensures political authority. He shows how after the decline of the
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