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

by Florian Fuchs

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942130740
• ISBN13: 9781942130741
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"