Communities in fiction / J. Hillis Miller.
Communities in fiction / J. Hillis Miller.
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Publisher
New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Date
℗♭2015
Call Numbers
G 2016/1796
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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 communi...
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Publisher
New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Edition
First edition.
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Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
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...
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Communities in fiction / J. Hillis Miller.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index.
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G 2016/1796
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74VKzQ5goKll
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzQ5goKll
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ISBN
9780823263103
MMS ID
991023561789702626
