Civic Storytelling : The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature /
"This book recalibrates literature's political role for the twenty-first century by excavating the deep history of storytelling as a civic agency"--
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Zone Books,
2023.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


