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Communities in fiction /

'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 by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Nancy for communities in the real world. The book's topic is t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Colección:Commonalities.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Theories of community : Williams, Heidegger, and others
  • Trollope's The last chronicle of Barset as a model of Victorian community
  • Individual and community in The return of the native
  • Conrad's colonial (non)community : Nostromo
  • Waves theory : an anachronistic reading
  • Postmodern communities in Pynchon and Cervantes
  • Coda.