Communities in Fiction

by J. Hillis Miller and J Hillis Miller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082326310X
• ISBN13: 9780823263103
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"