The common growl : toward a poetics of precarious community / Thomas Claviez, editor.
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 seriou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Commonalities.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 197 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780823270927 0823270920 0823270912 9780823270910 |