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The Practice and Theory of Storytelling: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walter Benjamin
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“ What is he? ” murmurs one gray shadow of my forefathers to the other. “ A writer of story-books ! What kind of business in life, what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation, may that be? ” (Hawthorne, “ The Custom-House”
Title: The Practice and Theory of Storytelling: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walter Benjamin
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“ What is he? ” murmurs one gray shadow of my forefathers to the other.
“ A writer of story-books ! What kind of business in life, what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation, may that be? ” (Hawthorne, “ The Custom-House”.
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