Politics of Form

Sarah Copland is Assistant Professor of English at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada. She has published work on modernist narratives, prefaces, and poetry; the new modernist studies; rhetorical and cognitive approaches to narrative theory; the politics of form; and short stories and short story theory. Greta Olson is Professor of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany. She is also the general editor of the European Journal of English Studies, and co-founder of the European Network for Law and Literature Research. She works and wishes to facilitate projects on cultural approaches to law, the politics of narrative, critical media and American studies, and feminism and sexuality studies.

• Introduction: Towards a politics of form 1. Combined and uneven styles in the modern world-system: stylistic ideology in José de Alencar, Machado de Assis and Thomas Hardy 2. Liberal formalisms 3. The politics of fictionality in documentary form: The Act of Killing and The Ambassador 4.The politics of form in Samuel Beckett’s late theatre and prose 5. A cast never on stage before: revolution, utopia and social critique in David Caute’s Comrade Jacob and Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 6. Towards resilience and playfulness: the negotiation of indigenous Australian identities in twentieth-century Aboriginal narratives 7. Israeli–Palestinian narratives and the politics of form: reading Side by Side