Civic storytelling : the rise of short forms and the agency of literature / Florian Fuchs.

Author/creator Fuchs, Florian, 1984- author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Zone Books, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Description319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: Two ontologies of prose literature, short form versus novel rhetorical speech versus topical speech -- The Ars Topica, its disappearance, and its afterlife -- After the Ars Topica : the failed return of the fable in modernity -- Form : the novella and the agency of short narrative forms -- Argumentation : the proverb as microarrative agency -- Perception : the fairy tale as topical archive -- Epiphanies, enacted stories, and the praxeology of short forms -- Coda: Civic storytelling and the postliterary image life.
Abstract "This book recalibrates literature's political role for the twenty-first century by excavating the deep history of storytelling as a civic agency"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Fuchs, Florian, Civic storytelling New York : Zone Books, 2023 9781942130758
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2022013270
ISBN9781942130741 (hardcover)
ISBN1942130740
ISBN(ebook)