Community in twentieth-century fiction

edited by Paula Martín Salván, Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Julián Jiménez Heffernan

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.

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[目次]

  • Introduction 1. Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce's The Dead
  • Pilar Villar Argaiz 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
  • Julian Jimenez Heffernan 4. 'Being involved:' Community and Commitment in Graham Greene's The Quiet American
  • Paula Martin Salvan 5. Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma
  • Maria J. Lopez 6. The Secret of Robertson Davies' Cornish Communities
  • Mercedes Diaz Duenas 7. When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame's The Carpathians
  • Gerardo Rodriguez Salas 8. Communal 'Openness' to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O'Brien's Short Fiction
  • Pilar Villar Argaiz 9. 'A Political Anxiety:' Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community
  • Julian Jimenez Heffernan 10. 'Longing on a Large Scale:' Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo's Fiction
  • Paula Martin Salvan 11. 'I Am Not a Herald of Community:' Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee
  • Maria J. Lopez 12. Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood's Futuristic Dystopias
  • Mercedes Diaz Duenas

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書名 Community in twentieth-century fiction
著作者等 Heffernan Julian Jimenez
Jiménez Heffernan Julián
Rodriguez-Salas Gerardo
Rodríguez Salas Gerardo
Salvan Paula Martin
Martín Salván Paula
出版元 Palgrave Macmillan
刊行年月 2013
ページ数 xiv, 278 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9781137282835
NCID BB14298342
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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