December 2017: 246x174: 128pp Hb: 978-1-138-56333-9 | £115.00 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: Towards a politics of form Greta Olson and Sarah Copland; 1. Combined and uneven styles in the modern world-system: stylistic ideology in José de Alencar, Machado de Assis and Thomas Hardy Daniel Hartley; 2. Liberal formalisms Frederik Van Dam; 3. The politics of fictionality in documentary form: The Act of Killing and The Ambassador Stefan Iversen and Henrik Skov Nielsen; 4.The politics of form in Samuel Beckett’s late theatre and prose Paul Stewart; 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 Corina Stan; 6. Towards resilience and playfulness: the negotiation of indigenous Australian identities in twentieth-century Aboriginal narratives Jan Alber; 7. Israeli–Palestinian narratives and the politics of form: reading Side by Side Susan S. Lanser and Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan 20% Discount With This Flyer! The Politics of Form Edited by Sarah Copland, Macewan University, Edmonton, Canada and Greta Olson, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany This volume undertakes a project termed ‘a politics of form’, which politicizes formal analysis of narrative texts in various media while retaining the form specificity that is a distinctive feature of narratology. It was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies. 20% Discount Available - enter the code FLR40 at checkout* Hb: 978-1-138-56333-9 | £92.00 * Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via our website. For more details, or to request a copy for review, please contact: Ffion Evans, Marketing Assistant, [email protected] For more information visit: www.routledge.com/9781138563339