| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce's The Dead / Pilar Villar Argáiz -- 'Two Grinning Puppets Jigging Away in Nothingness:' Symbolism and the Community of Lovers in Katherine Mansfield's Short Fiction / Gerardo Rodríguez Salas -- 'A Panegyric Preached Over an Empty Coffin': Waugh, or, the Inevitable End of Community / Julián Jiménez Heffernan -- 'Being involved:' Community and Commitment in Graham Greene's The Quiet American / Paula Martín Salván -- Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma / María J. López -- The Secret of Robertson Davies' Cornish Communities / Mercedes Díaz Dueñas -- When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame's The Carpathians / Gerardo Rodríguez Salas -- Communal 'Openness' to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O'Brien's Short Fiction / Pilar Villar Argáiz -- 'A Political Anxiety:' Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community / Julián Jiménez Heffernan -- 'Longing on a Large Scale:' Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo's Fiction / Paula Martín Salván -- 'I Am Not a Herald of Community:' Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee / María J. López -- Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood's Futuristic Dystopias / Mercedes Díaz Dueñas |
| Summary |
"Community in Twentieth Century Fiction is the first systematic study on the role that modern and contemporary fiction has played in the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), the essays in this collection examine narratives by Joyce, Waugh, Greene, LaGuma, Mansfield, Davies, O'Brien, Naipaul, DeLillo, Coetzee, Frame and Atwood. Through the integrated articulation of notions such as finitude, openness, exposure, immunity and death, we aim at uncovering the strategies of communal figuration at work in modern and contemporary fiction. Most of these strategies involve a rejection of organic communities based on essentialist fusion and an inclination to dramatize 'inoperative communities' (Nancy) of singularities aware of their own finitude and exposed to that of others"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Communities in literature.
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Society in literature.
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Community life in literature.
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Literature and society.
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Society & culture: general.
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Literary theory.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Society.
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Literature and society
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Community life in literature
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American fiction
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Communities in literature
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Society in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martín Salván, Paula, editor.
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Rodríguez Salas, Gerardo, editor.
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Jiménez Heffernan, Julián, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137282842 |
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1137282843 |
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