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Communities in Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Commonalities
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Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by
Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the
light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by
Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy. The
book’s topic is the question of how communities or noncommunities
are represented in fictional works. Such fictional communities help
the reader understand real communities, including those in which
the reader lives. As against the presumption that the trajectory in
literature from Victorian to modern to postmodern is the story of a
gradual loss of belief in the possibility of community, this book
demonstrates that communities have always been presented in fiction
as precarious and fractured. Moreover, the juxtaposition of Pynchon
and Cervantes in the last chapter demonstrates that period
characterizations are never to be trusted. All the features both
thematic and formal that recent critics and theorists such as
Fredric Jameson and many others have found to characterize
postmodern fiction are already present in Cervantes’s wonderful
early-seventeenth-century “Exemplary Story,” “The Dogs’
Colloquy.” All the themes and narrative devices of Western
fiction from the beginning of the print era to the present were
there at the beginning, in Cervantes Most of all, however,
Communities in Fiction looks in detail at its six fictions,
striving to see just what they say, what stories they tell, and
what narratological and rhetorical devices they use to say what
they do say and to tell the stories they do tell. The book attempts
to communicate to its readers the joy of reading these works and to
argue for the exemplary insight they provide into what Heidegger
called Mitsein— being together in communities that are always
problematic and unstable.
General
Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Commonalities |
Release date: |
December 2014 |
Firstpublished: |
November 2014 |
Authors: |
J.Hillis Miller
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8232-6311-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8232-6311-8 |
Barcode: |
9780823263110 |
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