Novels became popular with readers in the 18th century, so are a fairly new type of fiction compared with poetry ... Although these forms are short, they provide the reader with a vivid snapshot ...

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we see a unique form of French sf, affirming its shape, as it goes, in relation to traditional French literature. The other very fruitful descriptive term Gouanvic presents, this time to describe the ...