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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.
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.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts
of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as
"pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates
that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the
intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools
nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan
reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred
biography in relation to the community for which it was written;
identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and
demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval
saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the
process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate
understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new
critical method that has important implications for the practice of
textual criticism.
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