Communities in fiction / J. Hillis Miller.

Author: Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021, author.

ImprintNew York : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Imprint2015

Descriptionxiii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index.

Note:Examines how communities or noncommunities are represented in fictional works and shows how communities have been represented in fiction as precarious and fractured.

Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries

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