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Community in twentieth century fiction

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Community in twentieth century fiction/ edited by Paula Mart�in Salv�an, Gerardo Rodr�iguez Salas and Juli�an Jim�enez Heffernan.
other author:	Mart�in Salv�an, Paula,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	American fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137282842
ISBN:	9781137282842 (electronic bk.)

Community in twentieth century fiction
Community in twentieth century fiction[electronic resource] /edited by Paula Mart�in Salv�an, Gerardo Rodr�iguez Salas and Juli�an Jim�enez Heffernan. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce's The Dead; Pilar Villar Ar�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�in Ji�mnez Heffernan -- 4. 'Being involved:' Community and Commitment in Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Paula Mar�tn Sal�vn -- 5. Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma; Ma�ra J. �Lpez -- 6. The Secret of Robertson Davies' Cornish Communities; Mercedes �Daz Du�eas -- 7. When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame's The Carpathians; Gerardo Rod�rguez Salas -- 8. Communal 'Openness' to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O'Brien's Short Fiction; Pilar Villar Ar�giz -- 9. 'A Political Anxiety:' Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community; Jul�in Ji�mnez Heffernan -- 10. 'Longing on a Large Scale:' Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo's Fiction; Paula Mar�tn Sal�vn -- 11. 'I Am Not a Herald of Community:' Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee; Ma�ra J. �Lpez -- 12. Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood's Futuristic Dystopias; Mercedes �Daz Du�eas.

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.

ISBN: 9781137282842 (electronic bk.)

Source: 642311Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

569525
American fiction
--History and criticism.--20th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS374.C586 / C66 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.509355

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