{"product_id":"civic-storytelling-the-rise-of-short-forms-and-the-agency-of-literature-hardcover","title":"Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFlorian Fuchs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature's political role for the twenty-first century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy 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. Fuchs's focus in this groundbreaking book is on the fate of topical speech, on what is exchanged between participants in argument or conversation as opposed to rhetorical speech, which emanates from and ensures political authority. He shows how after the decline of the \u003ci\u003eArs topica\u003c\/i\u003e in the eighteenth century, various forms of literary speech took up the role of topical speech that Aristotle had originally identified. Thus, his book outlines a genealogy of various literary short forms--from fable, fairy tale, and novella to twenty-first century video storytelling--that attempted on both \"high\" and \"low\" levels of culture to exercise again the social function of topical speech. Some of the specific texts analyzed include the novellas of Theodor Storm and the novella-like \u003ci\u003elettre de cachet\u003c\/i\u003e, proverbial fictions of Gustave Flaubert and Gottfried Keller, the fairy tale as rediscovered by Vladimir Propp and Walter Benjamin, the epiphanies of James Joyce, and the video narratives of Hito Steyerl.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlorian Fuchs\u003c\/b\u003e is a scholar of literary epistemology and media studies. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eHistory, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.3 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170685849735,"sku":"9781942130741","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8be98b71912c3ad1e8d387a9a40ce8bc.webp?v=1733350008","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/civic-storytelling-the-rise-of-short-forms-and-the-agency-of-literature-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}