why have novels been ascendant since like the 18th century what

It's a complicated history which involves print culture, locomotives, and women's histories.

>>8747367
go on

>>8747395
Nah

If you can't be fucked to punch "novel" and "history" into the MLA bibliography why should I write a dissertation on this anime image board?

>>8747412
God forbid a discussion break out on here.

Plays turned into movies

Poetry I don't know. It could be said that we as a majority are now less in touch with ourselves and lack the skill to articulate our thoughts.

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poetry has always been mostly bullshit and now people have more options to occupy their leisure besides "stick my thumb up my ass or read/recite some pretty words"

>>8747449

At least no one's said "do your own homework!" yet

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>>8747318
>>8747479
We are listening to more poetry than ever through song lyrics, especially rap music. The focus there has shifted from content to form, more specifically rhyme and rhythm, but it is essentially poetry.

I remember a poet laureate naming Eminem as the greatest poet in America. Bob Dylan just got a Nobel Prize in literature.