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A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature's political role for the twenty-first century 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. 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 Ars topica 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 lettre de cachet, 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.

Fiction --- Short story --- Storytelling --- Debates and debating in literature --- History, Modern, in literature --- Politics and literature

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Le théâtre d’histoire immédiate met en scène les guerres de religion et de conquêtes coloniales, les luttes politiques de succession, les faits divers liés à la captivité, la piraterie ou la sorcellerie. Il ne livre pas une simple imitation des faits et des chroniques, mais fournit une interprétation de l’écriture de l’histoire et une réflexion sur la fictionnalité du réel. Cette herméneutique de l’histoire se double d’enjeux anthropologiques : la construction de personnages forgeant leur destinée en marge de l’histoire collective, ou de figures minorées, tels les Indiens et les sorcières, met au jour de nouveaux processus d’individuation. Ce théâtre du réel se dégage du document pour problématiser les fractures de la première modernité

Historical drama --- History, Modern, in literature --- History and criticism --- Theatrical science --- drama [literature] --- Historical drama - History and criticism --- drama [discipline]

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The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary and social practices through which the early modern state was constituted. The state was defined not through the elaboration of theoretical models of sovereignty but rather as an effect of the literary and professional lives of its extraterritorial representatives. Netzloff focuses on the textual networks and literary production of three groups of extraterritorial agents: travelers and intelligence agents, mercenaries, and diplomats. These figures reveal the extent to which the administration of the English state as well as definitions of national culture were shaped0by England's military, commercial, and diplomatic relations in Europe and other regions across the globe. Netzloff emphasizes the transnational contexts of early modern state formation, from the Dutch Revolt and relations with Venice to the role of Catholic exiles and nonstate agents in diplomacy and international law. These global histories of travel, service, and labor additionally transformed definitions of domestic culture, from the social relations of classes and regions to the private sphere of households and families. Literary writing and state service were interconnected in the careers of Fynes Moryson, George Gascoigne, and Sir Henry Wotton, among others. As they entered the realm of print and addressed a reading public, they introduced the practices of governance to an emerging public sphere.

English literature --- Travelers' writings, British --- History, Modern, in literature --- State, The --- State, The --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History --- History --- Europe --- History

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82.04 --- 82:93 --- 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Literatuur en geschiedenis --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- History, Modern, in literature --- Politique dans la littérature --- Romance literature --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- Politics in literature --- Historiographie --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Europe --- History --- Histoire --- Romance literature - History and criticism - Congresses --- History, Modern, in literature - Congresses --- LITTERATURE ITALIENNE --- LITTERATURE FRANCAISE --- LITTERATURE ESPAGNOLE --- HISTORIOGRAPHIE --- LIBRAIRES ET LIBRAIRIE --- CHARLES QUINT (EMPEREUR GERMANIQUE), 1500-1558 --- PHILIPPE III, ROI D'ESPAGNE, 1598-1621 --- ARETIN (PIETRO BACCI, DIT ARETINO), ECRIVAIN ITALIEN, 1492-1556 --- LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO (FELIX), ECRIVAIN ESPAGNOL, 1562-1635 --- POESIE ITALIENNE --- POESIE ESPAGNOLE --- 15E-17E SIECLES --- FRANCE --- ESPAGNE --- ITALIE --- 15-17E SIECLES --- 16E SIECLE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION