Jonathan Franzen and the romance of community : narratives of salvation /

" Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyses each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hidalga, Jesús Blanco (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.
Subjects:	Franzen, Jonathan > Criticism and interpretation. Franzen, Jonathan. Salvation in literature. Redemption in literature. Communities in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: A formal and ideological approach to Jonathan Franzen's fiction
2. Knowable conspiracies: The Twenty-Seventh City
3. Strong Motion: Activism of the private sphere
4. The Corrections: A family romance for the global age
5. How to close a (meta)narrative: Freedom
6. Recapitulation: What's in an ending?
7. Epilogue: Purity and Hope
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