Introduction

togetherness and its discontents

Julian Jiménez Heffernan

1-47

Organic and unworked communities in James Joyce's "the dead"

Pilar Villar-Argáiz

48-66

"Two grinning puppets jigging away in nothingness"

symbolism and the community of lovers in Katherine Mansfield's short fiction

Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

67-83

"A panegyric preached over an empty coffin"

Waugh, or, the inevitable end of community

Julian Jiménez Heffernan

84-104

"Being involved"

community and commitment in Graham Greene's The quiet American

Paula Martín Salván

105-122

Doomed to walk the night

ghostly communities and promises in the novels of Alex la Guma

Maria J. Lopez

123-140

The secret of Robertson Davies' Cornish communities

Mercedes Díaz Dueñas

141-158

When strangers are never at home

a communitarian study of Janet Frame's The carpathians

Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

159-176

Communal "oenness' to an irreducible outside

the inoperative community in Edna O'Brien's short fiction

Pilar Villar-Argáiz

177-194

"A political anxiety"

Naipaul, or the unlikely beginning of community

Julian Jiménez Heffernan

195-217

"Longing on a large scale"

models of communitarian reconstitution in Don Delillo's fiction

Paula Martín Salván

218-237

"I am not a herald of community"

communities of contagion and touching in the letters of J.M. Coetzee

Maria I. Lopez

238-254

Immortality and immunity in Margaret Atwood's futuristic dystopias

Mercedes Díaz Dueñas

255-270