What is literature? What is fiction? What constitutes a particular genre? We cannot provide essentialist answers to these questions and instead have to examine the social practices in which people act when they read literary texts. This study sheds light on the history of the interconnected practices of literature, fiction, and genre, opening up new perspectives on the relationship between literature and reality.

Autorentext
Benjamin Gittel, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.