The Common Growl : Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community / Thomas Claviez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claviez, Thomas, Author.

Contributor:

Nancy, Jean-Luc

Series:

Commonalities.

Commonalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Society in literature.

Communities in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD: THE COMMON GROWL

INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A POETICS OF COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY AND ETHNOS

A METONYMIC COMMUNITY? TOWARD A POETICS OF CONTINGENCY

POETICS OF ANXIETY AND SECURITY

LITERATURE, THE WORLD, AND YOU

LITERARY COMMUNITIES

ANTIRACISM AND (RE)HUMANIZATION

CAN SOCIETY BE COMMODITIES ALL THE WAY DOWN?

TWO EXAMPLES OF RECENT AESTHETICO- POLITICAL FORMS OF COMMUNITY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

WORKS CITED

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF NAMES

SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-186) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-7096-3

0-8232-7095-5

0-8232-7094-7

OCLC:

949904149