New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject

<p><em>New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite Singular Exposed</em> offers new approaches to the modernist subject and its relation to community. With a non-exclusive focus on narrative the essays included provide innovative and theoretically informed readings of canonical modernist authors including: James Conrad Joyce Woolf Lawrence Mansfield Stein Barnes and Faulkner (instead of Eliot) as well as of non-canonical and late modernists Stapledon Rhys Beckett Isherwood and Baldwin (instead of Marsden). This volume examines the context of new dialectico-metaphysical approaches to subjectivity and individuality and of recent philosophical debate on community encouraged by critics such as Alain Badiou Jean-Luc Nancy Maurice Blanchot Giorgio Agamben Roberto Esposito and Jacques Derrida among others of which a fresh re-definition of the modernist subject and community remains to be made one that is likely to enrich the field of new Modernist studies. This volume will fill this gap presenting a re-definition of the subject by complementing community-oriented approaches to modernist fiction through a dialectical counterweight that underlines a conception of the modernist subject as finite singular and exposed and its relation to inorganic and inoperative communities. </p>