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Community in twentieth-century fiction
Abstract
This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others.
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togetherness and its discontents
pp.1-47
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_1pp.48-66
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_2symbolism and the community of lovers in Katherine Mansfield's short fiction
pp.67-83
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_3Waugh, or, the inevitable end of community
pp.84-104
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_4community and commitment in Graham Greene's The quiet American
pp.105-122
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_5ghostly communities and promises in the novels of Alex la Guma
pp.123-140
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_6pp.141-158
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_7a communitarian study of Janet Frame's The carpathians
pp.159-176
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_8the inoperative community in Edna O'Brien's short fiction
pp.177-194
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_9Naipaul, or the unlikely beginning of community
pp.195-217
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_10models of communitarian reconstitution in Don Delillo's fiction
pp.218-237
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_11communities of contagion and touching in the letters of J.M. Coetzee
pp.238-254
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282842_12Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2013
Pages: 278
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-44875-3
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-28284-2
Full citation:
Martín Salván Paula, Rodríguez Salas Gerardo, Jiménez Heffernan Julián (2013) Community in twentieth-century fiction. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.