Editorial: Princeton University Press
Colección: Zone Books
Número de páginas: 320 págs.
Fecha de edición: 18-07-2023
EAN: 9781942130741
ISBN: 978-1-942130-74-1
Precio (sin IVA): 33,43 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,77 €
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.