Communities In Fiction
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Communities In Fiction
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Author : J. Hillis Miller
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2014-12-02
Communities In Fiction written by J. Hillis Miller and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Communities In Fiction
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Author : J. Hillis Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Communities In Fiction written by J. Hillis Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Communities in literature categories.
'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 the question of how communities or non-communities are represented in fictional works.
Communities Of Women
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Author : Nina Auerbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Communities Of Women written by Nina Auerbach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Literary Criticism categories.
Novels by Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Henry James are among those considered in a study of changing visions of and attitudes toward women in fiction
Community In Twentieth Century Fiction
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Author : P. Salvan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-19
Community In Twentieth Century Fiction written by P. Salvan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Communities In Fiction
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Author : Joseph Hillis Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Communities In Fiction written by Joseph Hillis Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Communities in literature categories.
Communities Of Care
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Author : Talia Schaffer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
Communities Of Care written by Talia Schaffer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, Schaffer proposes a theory of communal care and a mode of critical reading centered on an ethics of care. In the Victorian era, medical science offered little hope for cure of illness or disability, and chronic invalidism and lengthy convalescences were common. Small communities might gather around afflicted individuals to minister to their needs and palliate their suffering. Communities of Care examines these groups in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, and Charlotte Yonge, and studies the relationships that they exemplify. How do carers become part of the community? How do they negotiate status? How do caring emotions develop? And what does it mean to think of care as an activity rather than a feeling? Contrasting the Victorian emphasis on community and social structure with modern individualism and interiority, Schaffer’s sympathetic readings draw us closer to the worldview from which these novels emerged. Schaffer also considers the ways in which these models of carework could inform and improve practice in criticism, in teaching, and in our daily lives. Through the lens of care, Schaffer discovers a vital form of communal relationship in the Victorian novel. Communities of Care also demonstrates that literary criticism done well is the best care that scholars can give to texts.
Beloved Communities
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Author : Elizabeth Kella
language : en
Publisher: Uppsala, Sweden : S. Academiae Ubsaliensis
Release Date : 2000
Beloved Communities written by Elizabeth Kella and has been published by Uppsala, Sweden : S. Academiae Ubsaliensis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In everyday speech, "community" signals intimate, authentic, and deeply egalitarian social relations. Since the 1960s, "community" also often implies political solidarity. Yet, repression and violence clearly operate within communities as well as between them. Does this mean that community is merely a delusion, or is it a worthwhile social and political goal?" "This study examines the ways in which Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa imagine the possibilities and limitations of communities in novels of the 1980s and 1990s. Through their returns to past moments of severe social disruption, the works considered here explore the relations between trauma and oppression that inform many minority histories and contemporary realities, particularly those of a multicultural US and Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
The Sense Of Community In French Caribbean Fiction
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Author : Celia Britton
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Sense Of Community In French Caribbean Fiction written by Celia Britton and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This groundbreaking book analyzes the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The complex history of the islands means that community is often a central and problematic issue in their literature, underlying a range of other questions such as political agency, individual and collective subjectivity, attitudes towards the past and the future, and even the literary form itself. Celia Britton here studies a range of key books from the region, including Édouard Glissant’s Le Quatrième Siècle, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco, Daniel Maximin’s L’Ile et une nuit, and Vincent Placoly’s L’eau-de-mort guildive, among others.
The Conflagration Of Community
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Author : J. Hillis Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-09-15
The Conflagration Of Community written by J. Hillis Miller and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Education categories.
Juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust with Kafka's novels and Morrison's 'Beloved', asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony.
Fan Fiction And Fan Communities In The Age Of The Internet
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Author : Karen Hellekson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2006-07-19
Fan Fiction And Fan Communities In The Age Of The Internet written by Karen Hellekson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are widely read and even more widely commented upon. New interactions between readers and writers of fan texts are possible in these new virtual communities. From Star Trek to Harry Potter, the essays in this volume explore the world of fan fiction--its purposes, how it is created, how the fan experiences it. Grouped by subject matter, essays cover topics such as genre intersection, sexual relationships between characters, character construction through narrative, and the role of the beta reader in online communities. The work also discusses the terminology used by creators of fan artifacts and comments on the effects of technological advancements on fan communities. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.