| [NT 42944] Record Type: |
[NT 8598] Electronic resources
: [NT 40817] monographic
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| [NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
Mart{EFBFBD}in Salv{EFBFBD}anPaula, |
| [NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
Rodr{EFBFBD}iguez SalasGerardo, |
| [NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
Jim{EFBFBD}enez HeffernanJuli{EFBFBD}an, |
| [NT 47351] Place of Publication: |
New York |
| [NT 47263] Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| [NT 47352] Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| [NT 47264] Description: |
1 online resource |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
American fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
Communities in literature. - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
Society in literature. - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General - |
| [NT 51458] Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137282842 |
| [NT 47265] Notes: |
Description based on print version record |
| [NT 51398] 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. |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
9781137282842electronic bk. |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
1137282843electronic bk. |
| [NT 60779] Content Note: |
1. Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce's The Dead; Pilar Villar Ar{EFBFBD}giz 2. 'Two Grinning Puppets Jigging Away in Nothingness:' Symbolism and the Community of Lovers in Katherine Mansfield's Short Fiction; Gerardo Rodriguez Salas 3. 'A Panegyric Preached Over an Empty Coffin': Waugh, or, the Inevitable End of Community; Jul{EFBFBD}in Ji{EFBFBD}mnez Heffernan 4. 'Being involved:' Community and Commitment in Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Paula Mar{EFBFBD}tn Sal{EFBFBD}vn 5. Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma; Ma{EFBFBD}ra J. {EFBFBD}Lpez 6. The Secret of Robertson Davies' Cornish Communities; Mercedes {EFBFBD}Daz Du{EFBFBD}eas 7. When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame's The Carpathians; Gerardo Rod{EFBFBD}rguez Salas 8. Communal 'Openness' to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O'Brien's Short Fiction; Pilar Villar Ar{EFBFBD}giz 9. 'A Political Anxiety:' Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community; Jul{EFBFBD}in Ji{EFBFBD}mnez Heffernan 10. 'Longing on a Large Scale:' Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo's Fiction; Paula Mar{EFBFBD}tn Sal{EFBFBD}vn 11. 'I Am Not a Herald of Community:' Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee; Ma{EFBFBD}ra J. {EFBFBD}Lpez 12. Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood's Futuristic Dystopias; Mercedes {EFBFBD}Daz Du{EFBFBD}eas. |