Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-312) and index.
Contents:
Coda. Civic storytelling and the postliterary image life. 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.
Summary:
"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.
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