Community, exposed singularity and death in Mrs Dalloway.

López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, María Jesús

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Community, exposed singularity and death in Mrs Dalloway.

dc.contributor.author	López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, María Jesús
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-23T10:02:28Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-23T10:02:28Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description.abstract	This essay brings Virginia Woolf and Jean-Luc Nancy into dialogue, focusing on their similar critique of essentialized models of community and evocation of forms of being-with that derive from the experiences of singularity and death. It identifies two forms of community in Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway (1925). The first one corresponds to Nancy’s conception of the immanent community, built upon essence and fusion, and in which death is provided with an ideological meaning. In Woolf’s novel, this communitarian logic traverses the official, ritualistic way in which England has sublimated the death and loss caused by the First World War, and the repressive conventions and the authoritarian spirit of the governing classes. An alternative kind of community, however, is suggested in Mrs Dalloway, one that can be identified with Nancy’s conception of the inoperative community: a community of singular beings who share their finitude, exposure and death. Blanchot’s ideas on the transient community of lovers and Butler’s theorization of a ‘we’ based upon common vulnerability and loss also shed light on this novel’s concern with antisocial bonds between characters that escape traditional forms of affiliation.	es
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dc.format.extent	17	es
dc.identifier.citation	IJES : international journal of English studies, V.24, N. 1, 2024, p. 171-187.	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.540361
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/143295
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad.	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Virginia Woolf	es
dc.subject	Mrs Dalloway	es
dc.subject	Community	es
dc.subject	Singularity	es
dc.subject	Exposure	es
dc.subject	Death	es
dc.subject	Nancy	es
dc.subject	Blanchot	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Community, exposed singularity and death in Mrs Dalloway.	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es