Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Togetherness and its Discontents....Pages 1-47
Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce’s “The Dead”....Pages 48-66
‘Two Grinning Puppets Jigging Away in Nothingness :” Symbolism and the Community of Lovers in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Fiction....Pages 67-83
“A Panegyric Preached Over an Empty Coffin:” Waugh, or, the Inevitable End of Community....Pages 84-104
“Being involved:” Community and Commitment in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American....Pages 105-122
Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma....Pages 123-140
The Secret of Robertson Davies’ Cornish Communities....Pages 141-158
When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame’s The Carpathians....Pages 159-176
Communal “Oenness” to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction....Pages 177-194
“A Political Anxiety:” Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community....Pages 195-217
“Longing on a Large Scale:” Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo’s Fiction....Pages 218-237
“I Am Not a Herald of Community:” Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee....Pages 238-254
Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood’s Futuristic Dystopias....Pages 255-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-278