TY - BOOK ID - 78646029 TI - Creating Communities PY - 2018 SN - 3732841863 3839441862 9783839441862 9783732841868 9783837641868 PB - Bielefeld DB - UniCat KW - African Americans in literature. KW - American literature KW - African American literature (English) KW - Black literature (American) KW - Negro literature KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - African American authors. KW - Afro-American authors KW - Negro authors KW - Fiction; History; Literary Masks; Reader-Response Criticism; Communities; Collective Imaginary; Collective Unconscious; Wolfgang Iser; Cornelius Castoriadis; Jean-Paul Sartre; Carl Gustav Jung; Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann; Literature; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies KW - Carl Gustav Jung. KW - Collective Imaginary. KW - Collective Unconscious. KW - Communities. KW - Cornelius Castoriadis. KW - General Literature Studies. KW - History. KW - Jean-Paul Sartre. KW - Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann. KW - Literary Masks. KW - Literary Studies. KW - Literature. KW - Reader-Response Criticism. KW - Wolfgang Iser. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78646029 AB - How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view on the role of the community in post-existentialist modern cultural reality by emphasizing the importance of ritual practices in literature as a cultural manifestation. ER -