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Communities in Fiction (Hardcover)
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Communities in Fiction (Hardcover)
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.
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