'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...
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'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 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.