Heffernan, Julián Jiménez
Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction
1. Introduction: Togetherness and its Discontents
Julián Jiménez Heffernan
2. Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Pilar Villar-Argáiz
3. ‘Two Grinning Puppets Jigging Away in Nothingness :” Symbolism and the Community of Lovers in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Fiction
Gerardo Rodríguez Salas
4. “A Panegyric Preached Over an Empty Coffin:” Waugh, or, the Inevitable End of Community
Julián Jiménez Heffernan
5. “Being involved:” Community and Commitment in Graham Greene’s
Paula Martín Salván
6. Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma
María J. López
7. The Secret of Robertson Davies’
Mercedes Díaz Dueñas
8. When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame’s
Gerardo Rodríguez Salas
9. Communal “Oenness” to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction
Pilar Villar-Argáiz
10. “A Political Anxiety:” Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community
Julián Jiménez Heffernan
11. “Longing on a Large Scale:” Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo’s Fiction
Paula Martín Salván
12. “I Am Not a Herald of Community:” Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee
María J. López
13. Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood’s Futuristic Dystopias
Mercedes Díaz Dueñas
Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Fiction
- Editor
- Heffernan, Julián Jiménez
- Salas, Gerardo Rodríguez
- Salván, Paula Martín
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 292 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137282842
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-44875-3