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Commitment • Centres and Peripheries • Nationalism • Capitalism • Democracy • Digital Modernism • Digitalisation • Technology • Digital Era • Fiction • Novel • 20th century • 21st century

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

This collection aims to explore the literary and political challenges the digital age poses for the genre of the novel. Without a doubt, it is having a profound impact on all aspects of the literary process, opening up a new context that redefines creative processes, reading practices, distribution methods, and critical reception. Digital issues and practices affect fundamental notions of literary studies. But how are these changes reflected in the novel itself? How has this new context redefined relations with the political sphere (if at all)? What kind of political novel is possible in the digital age?

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Scholars

Teachers and educators

Students

Artists

Politics of literature • Political novel

What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

This Collection brings together selected contributions to the first annual CAPONEU conference, which took place in Berlin from 27 to 29 September 2023. The participants discussed a variety of understandings of the political novel as a (tentative) genre. They combined approaches to defining the political novel that are characterised by genre theory with those that are shaped by the history of the genre, thus also paradigmatically illustrating this changeable category in relation to specific novels that have emerged in heterogeneous contexts. The Collection was published on the Open Research Europe platform (open access).

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Scholars

Students

Writers, translators, publishers, literary critics