Civic storytelling : the rise of short forms and the agency of literature / Florian Fuchs.
| Author/creator | Fuchs, Florian, 1984- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Zone Books, 2023. |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | 319 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Fuchs, Florian, Civic storytelling New York : Zone Books, 2023 9781942130758 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2022013270 |
| ISBN | 9781942130741 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1942130740 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |