Comment by wbl
7 hours 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.
7 hours 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.
They'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.