Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501343681)

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

Integrating various formal and ideological perspectives to illuminate Franzen's work, Jesús Blanco Hidalga demonstrates that the concepts of salvation and redemption, typical of romance narratives, run throughout Franzen's fiction. Even as he re-assesses and expands the familiar interpretations of Franzen's work, Blanco Hidalga shows how these salvation narratives are used for self-legitimization not only by the characters, but by the writer himself. Combining critical rigor with interpretative boldness, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community offers a new theoretical approach to a major contemporary author.

Author: Jesús Blanco Hidalga
ISBN-10: 1501343688
ISBN-13: 9781501343681
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2018
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d