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The epic and the play are several thousand years older. Novels are the newest kind of literature, even if it has been a few centuries at this point.
by wbl 3mo ago
The epic and the play are several thousand years older. Novels are the newest kind of literature, even if it has been a few centuries at this point.
- AlotOfReading 3mo agoThey're not the newest kind of literature. Arthurian legends and religious canons are two examples of newer forms, neither of which I think would be typically described as "recent." I could also use the novella, and the anecdote as examples instead.