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A study of Graham Greene's fiction from the perspective of ethics
and community, focusing on the narrative pattern that emerges from
the author's idiosyncratic use of keywords like peace, despair,
compassion or commitment. This book explores their potential for
the textual articulation of narrative conflict and the
dramatization of the ethical.
New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite,
Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernist subject
and its relation to community. With a non-exclusive focus on
narrative, the essays included provide innovative and theoretically
informed readings of canonical modernist authors, including: James,
Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Mansfield, Stein, Barnes and
Faulkner (instead of Eliot), as well as of non-canonical and late
modernists Stapledon, Rhys, Beckett, Isherwood, and Baldwin
(instead of Marsden). This volume examines the context of new
dialectico-metaphysical approaches to subjectivity and
individuality and of recent philosophical debate on community
encouraged by critics such as Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice
Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito and Jacques Derrida,
among others, of which a fresh re-definition of the modernist
subject and community remains to be made, one that is likely to
enrich the field of "new Modernist studies". This volume will fill
this gap, presenting a re-definition of the subject by
complementing community-oriented approaches to modernist fiction
through a dialectical counterweight that underlines a conception of
the modernist subject as finite, singular and exposed, and its
relation to inorganic and inoperative communities.
New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite,
Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernist subject
and its relation to community. With a non-exclusive focus on
narrative, the essays included provide innovative and theoretically
informed readings of canonical modernist authors, including: James,
Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Mansfield, Stein, Barnes and
Faulkner (instead of Eliot), as well as of non-canonical and late
modernists Stapledon, Rhys, Beckett, Isherwood, and Baldwin
(instead of Marsden). This volume examines the context of new
dialectico-metaphysical approaches to subjectivity and
individuality and of recent philosophical debate on community
encouraged by critics such as Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice
Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito and Jacques Derrida,
among others, of which a fresh re-definition of the modernist
subject and community remains to be made, one that is likely to
enrich the field of "new Modernist studies". This volume will fill
this gap, presenting a re-definition of the subject by
complementing community-oriented approaches to modernist fiction
through a dialectical counterweight that underlines a conception of
the modernist subject as finite, singular and exposed, and its
relation to inorganic and inoperative communities.
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