Storytelling in this time

"In ancient times, literature primarily meant poetry. The novel was a new innovation attached to biography and history in a way that does not make it authentic literature, and a colloquial form that does not rise to the ranks of the refined motives of lyric or epic poetry. But the situation changed in the twentieth century, and the novel surpassed poetry, both in terms of what writers wrote or what readers read, and fiction has dominated literary education since the 1960s. People still stud...