Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies

15.03.2024 - 16.03.2024

The workshop addressed problematic relations between political novel and its critical, historiographical and sociological counterparts, as sets of complex signifying practices simultaneously forming particular configurations and exhibiting recurring patterns. In a series of mutually dependent theoretical discussions and case studies, discourses, narrative handlings of what is presumed to constitute material, types of representation (reality effect) and modes of veridiction (historical, novelistic, sociological) were analysed in depth in order to map the competitive field where they contrast, intertwine, overlap, complement and legitimize each other.