Download or read book Simplify, Simplify! Brevity, Plainness and Their Complications in American Literature and Culture written by Isabell Klaiber and published by Brill Schoningh. This book was released on 2019 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the varieties of the short form in American literature, art, and culture as well as different ideas and aesthetics of simplicity, plainness, and brevity from the 19th century to the present. The contributors discuss how these ideas were translated into widely diverging practices, serving an equally broad spectrum of cultural and political functions. The essays survey a range of media and genres, including short fiction, plays, popular rhetoric, songs, photography, film, and Twitter.