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Introduction / Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK -- Part I. Homer and tragedy. 1. Disagreement, complexity and the politics of Homer's verbal form / Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland ; 2. Sophocles' Antigone, feminism's Hegel and the politics of form / Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK ; 3. The aporia of action and the agency of form in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis / Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada -- Part II. The long fourth century. 4. The politics of informed form: Plato and Walter Benjamin / Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia ; 5. Plato's seventh letter, or How to fashion a subject of resistance / Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA ; 6. Philosophizing embodiment in Aristotle's poetics and rhetoric / Nancy Worman, Barnard College/Columbia University, USA ; 7. Aristotle's lost works for the public and the politics of academic form / Edith Hall, King's College London, UK ; 8. Politics and form in Xenophon / Rosie Harman, University College London, UK -- Part III. Verse matters. 9. Forms of survival / Susan Stephens, Stanford University, USA ; 10. Greek metre and rhythm / Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK -- Part IV. Reception. 11. The politics of form in eighteenth-century visions of ancient Greece / Daniel Orrells, King's College London, UK ; 12. Ekphrasis, Leo Spitzer and the politics of form / Ruth Webb, Université Lille, France. "The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of literary production and sought to historicize aesthetic practice. However, historicism (and in particular New Historicism) is only one mode of approaching the question of form, which is increasingly brought into dialogue with a number of other issues (e.g. gender). Bringing together contributions from a range of experts, this volume examines these and other related approaches, assessing their limitations and discussing possibilities for the future. Individual chapters discuss an array of ancient authors, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Callimachus, and more, and sketch out the specifically Greek contribution to the debate, as well as the implications for other disciplines. What emerges from this book are new ways of thinking about form, and indeed about politics, that will be of value to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences."--
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