Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Togetherness and its Discontents

   • Julián Jiménez Heffernan

   Pages 1-47

3. Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce’s “The Dead”

   • Pilar Villar-Argáiz

   Pages 48-66

4. ‘Two Grinning Puppets Jigging Away in Nothingness :” Symbolism and the Community of Lovers in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Fiction

   • Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

   Pages 67-83

5. “A Panegyric Preached Over an Empty Coffin:” Waugh, or, the Inevitable End of Community

   • Julián Jiménez Heffernan

   Pages 84-104

6. “Being involved:” Community and Commitment in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American

   • Paula Martín Salván

   Pages 105-122

7. Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma

   • María J. López

   Pages 123-140

8. The Secret of Robertson Davies’ Cornish Communities

   • Mercedes Díaz Dueñas

   Pages 141-158

9. When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame’s The Carpathians

   • Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

   Pages 159-176

10. Communal “Oenness” to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction

    • Pilar Villar-Argáiz

    Pages 177-194

11. “A Political Anxiety:” Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community

    • Julián Jiménez Heffernan

    Pages 195-217

12. “Longing on a Large Scale:” Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo’s Fiction

    • Paula Martín Salván

    Pages 218-237

13. “I Am Not a Herald of Community:” Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee

    • María J. López

    Pages 238-254

14. Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood’s Futuristic Dystopias

    • Mercedes Díaz Dueñas

    Pages 255-270

15. Back Matter

    Pages 271-278

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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.

• Community Society
• Twentieth Century
• fiction
• Narrative
• novel
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Córdoba, Spain

  Paula Martín Salván, Julián Jiménez Heffernan

• University of Granada, Spain

  Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

Pilar Villar Argáiz, University of Granada, Spain Mercedes Díaz Dueñas, University of Granada, Spain María J. López, University of Córdoba, Spain

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