from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
http://bit.ly/abibliog
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Communities
Top ten
Early works
Miscellaneous
Top ten
Anderson,
Benedict. Imagined Communities:
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 2nd ed. rev. London:
Verso, 1991.
Dumont,
Louis. "La communauté anthropologique et l'idéologie." In Dumont, Essais sur l'individualisme. Paris:
Seuil (Points), 1991. 215-53.*
Durham,
Scott. Phantom Communities: The
Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism. Stanford UP, 1998.
Frye,
Northrop. "Natural and Revealed Communities." In Frye, Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays
1974-1988. Ed. Robert D. Denham. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990.
1991. 289-306.*
Nancy,
Jean-Luc. La Communauté désœuvrée.
Paris, 1986.
_____. The Inoperative Community.
Ed. E. P. Connor. Trans. E. P. Connor et al. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P,
1991.
Rheingold,
Howard. The Virtual Community.
_____. La Comunidad Virtual:
Una sociedad sin fronteras. Barcelona: Gedisa, 1996.
Rutherford,
Jonathan. Identity, Community, Culture,
Difference. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990.
Said,
Edward. "Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community." In The Politics of Interpretation. Ed. W.
J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.
Schnapper, Dominique. La Communauté des citoyens: Sur l'idée
moderne de nation. Paris: Gallimard, 1994.
_____. La comunidad de los ciudadanos: Acerca de la idea moderna de nación.
Madrid: Alianza, 2001.
Touraine,
Alain. Pourrons-nous vivre ensemble? Paris: Fayard, 1997.
_____. Can we live together? Equality and
difference. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000.
_____. ¿Podemos vivir juntos? Madrid: Promoción Popular Cristiana, 1990.
Worthington,
Kim L. Self as Narrative: Subjectivity
and Community in Contemporary Fiction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.*
Young, Iris
Marion. "The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference." In Feminism/Postmodernism. Ed. Linda J.
Nicholson. New York: Routledge, 1990. 300-23.*
Early
works
Aristotle. (Aristóteles). "Libro I: Comunidad política y
comunidad familiar." In Aristóteles, Política.
Barcelona: RBA, 2007. 43-72.*
_____. "Libro primero. Comunidad
política y comunidad familiar. In Aristotle, Política. Trans.
and notes by Manuela García Valdés. In Aristóteles, Ética Nicomaquea. Política. (Grandes
Pensadores Gredos; Aristóteles, III). Madrid: Gredos, 2011. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014. 245-76.*
Gomme (Mr.). The Village Community.
Miscellaneous
Adler, Alfred. "VI. El complejo de
inferioridad." In Adler, El sentido de la vida. Barcelona: Luis Miracle, 1935. 1948. 105-22.*
(Communities, social psychology).
_____. "XIII. Situaciones infantiles
que dificultan la formación del sentimiento de comunidad y su remedio." In
Adler, El sentido de la vida. Barcelona: Luis Miracle, 1935. 1948. 207-26.*
Agamben,
Giorgio. The Coming Community.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993.
Alexander,
Jeffrey C., et al. Cultural Trauma and Collective
Identity. Berkeley:
U of California P, 2004.
Anderson,
Benedict. Imagined Communities:
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 2nd ed. rev. London:
Verso, 1991.
Anderson,
Douglas. A House Undivided: Domesticity
and Community in American Literature. (Cambridge Studies in American
Literature and Culture, 38). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
Bauman,
Zygmunt. "On Communitarianism and Human Freedom, or How to Square the
Circle." In Bauman, Postmodernism
and Its Discontents. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. 186-98.*
_____. "5. Comunidad." In Bauman, Modernidad
líquida. México: FCE, 2003. Rpt. 2015. 169-212.* (Nationalism, Difference,
Unity, Security, State, Communities).
_____. Comunidad: En busca de seguridad en un mundo hostil. 2003.
Berger, Peter L., ed. Die Grenzen der Gemeinschaft: Konflikt und Vermittlung in
pluralistischen Gesellschaften. Bertelsmann
Foundation Publishers, 1997.
_____,
ed. Los límites de la cohesión social:
Conflicto y mediación en las sociedades pluralistas. Informe de la Fundación
Bertelsmann al Club de Roma. Trans. José Luis Gil Aristu. Ed. Susana
Pellicer. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 1999.* (With an additional chapter by
Víctor Pérez Díaz).
Blanchard, Anita. "Blogs as
Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia
Project." In Into the Blogosphere.
Ed. L. Gurak et al. 2004.*
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogs_as_virtual.html
2012
Brooks, Cleanth. Community, Religion, and Literature: Essays.
1995.
Bunge, Mario. Filosofía política: Solidaridad, Cooperación y Democracia Integral. Barcelona: Gedisa,
2009.
Cal Varela, Mario. "Hacia una
concepción prototípica de comunidad de
habla: Gibraltar." Atlantis 18 (June-Dec.1996 [issued 1998]):
37-52.*
Cameron, N. "The Paranoid
Pseudocommunity." American Journal
of Sociology 49 (1943): 32-38.
Clark,
Christopher W. "What Comes to the Surface: Storms, Bodies, and Commmunity
in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones."
The Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 68.3-4 (2017):
341-58.
http://www.academia.edu/15465557/What_Comes_to_the_Surface_Storms_Bodies_andCommunity_in_Jesmyn_Wards_Salvage_the_Bones
2018
Coral
Escolá, Jordi. "Shakespeare's Plausible Community: The First Act of Titus Andronicus and Its Kydian
Precedent." Miscelánea 36
(2007): 25-38.*
Corlett, William. Community
without Unity: A Politics of Derridian Extravagance. Durham (NC): Duke UP,
1989.
Cornell,
Drucilla. "Two Lectures on the Normative Dimensions of Community in the
Law." Tennessee Law Review 54
(1987).
Cronin,
Richard. The Politics of Romantic Poetry:
In Search of the Pure Commonwealth. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
D'Monte, Rebecca, and Nicole Pohl, eds. Female Communities 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities. London:
Macmilllan / Centre for English Studies, Schoool of Advanced Study, U of
London, 1999.
Delgado Parra, María Concepción.
"Sobre la comunidad ético-política contemporánea." Andamios: Revista de investigación social
11.24 (Jan.-April 2014): 15-33.* (Hegel, Antigone).
https://www.academia.edu/81843615/
2022
Dumont,
Louis. "La communauté anthropologique et l'idéologie." In Dumont, Essais sur l'individualisme. Paris:
Seuil (Points), 1991. 215-53.*
Durham,
Scott. Phantom Communities: The
Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism. Stanford UP, 1998.
Elias, Norbert, and John L. Scotson.
The Established and the Outsiders: A
Sociological Inquiry into Community Problems. London: Frank Cass, 1965.
Engler,
Balz. Poetry and Community. c. 1992.
Erickson, Thomas. "Social Interaction on the Net:
Virtual Community or Participatory Genre?" SIGGROUP Bulletin 18.2 (1997).
Erikson, Kai. "Notes on Trauma
and Community." In Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Ed.
Cathy Caruth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995. 183-99.
Forbes,
Duncan. Adam
Ferguson and the Idea of Community. Paisley: Gleniffer Press, 1979.
Frye,
Northrop. "Natural and Revealed Communities." In Frye, Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays
1974-1988. Ed. Robert D. Denham. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990.
1991. 289-306.*
Gabora, L. "An Evolutionary Framework for
Culture: Selectionism versus Communal Exchange." Physics of Life
Reviews 10.2 (2013):
117-45.
Hall, Stuart. "Culture, Community, Nation." Cultural Studies 7 (1993): 349-63.
Harari, Yuval Noah. "5.
Comunidad. Los humanos tenemos cuerpo." In Harari, 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI. Trans.
Joandomènec Ros. Barcelona: Penguin Random House – Debate, 2018. 107-14.*
Hoffman,
Donald. "10. Community: The Network of Conscious Agents." In Hoffman,
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution
Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. New York and London: Norton, 2019. 178-202.*
Iñigo-Mora,
Isabel. "On the Use of the Personal Pronoun we in Communities." Journal
of Language and Politics 3.1 (2004): 27-52.
Jackson, Brian. Working Class
Community. London: Routledge, 1968.
Johnstone,
Barbara. Stories, Community and Place:
Narratives from Middle America. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.
Komar, Smiljana, and Uros
Mozetic, eds. Literary Criticism as Metacommunity. Ljubljana: Slovene
Association for the Study of English, 2007.
MacIntyre, Alasdair "Historical Communities,
Moral Identity and the Quest for a Virtuous Life." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 10 March 2020.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2020/03/historical-communities-moral-identity.html
2020
Marinas, J. M., ed. Pensar lo político: Ensayos sobre comunidad y conflicto. Madrid:
Biblioteca Nueva, 2012.
Martín Salván, Paula, Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Julián Jiménez Heffernan,
eds. Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Houndmills (Basingstoke): Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013.
Mariou,
Eleni. "The Importance of Linguistic Capital in Contextualised Identity
Negotiation of 'Repatriated' Pontian Greeks from the former USSR." In Defining and Re-Defining Diaspora: From
Theory to Reality. Ed. Marianne David and Javier Muñoz-Basols. Oxford:
Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011. 85-104.*
Matei, S., and S.-J. Ball-Rokeach.
"Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic, and Internet Spaces." In The Internet in Everyday Life. Ed. B.
Wellman and C. A. Haythornthwaite. Malden (MA): Blackwell, 2002.
Miller, J.
Hillis. "Unworked and Unavowable: Community in The Awkward Age." In Miller, Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James. New York:
Fordham UP, 2005. 84-150.*
Nancy,
Jean-Luc. La Communauté désœuvrée.
Paris, 1986.
_____. The Inoperative Community.
Ed. E. P. Connor. Trans. E. P. Connor et al. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P,
1991.
O'Brien,
Daniel Tumminelli, and David Sloan Wilson. "Community Perception: The
Ability to Assess the Safety of Unfamiliar Neighbourhoods and Respond
Adaptively." Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology 100.4 (2011): 606-620.
Pascual-Garrido, María Luisa. "The
Inoperative Community in The Bell Jar:
The Sharing of Interrupted Myth."
Atlantis 39.1 (June 2017): 71-89.*
Pettersson,
Bo. "7. How Literary Worlds Shape Us." In Pettersson, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped: A
Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination. Berlin and Boston: Walter de
Gruyter, 2016. 208-34.* (Imagined selves, Communities, Heroes, Chesney's The Battle of Dorking; Lu Xun
(1881-1936)).
Popov, V. A. "Conceptual Apparatus in the
Doctrine of Criminal Community and Criminal Organization: Searching for a
Compromise." Proceedings of the XVII
International Research-to-Practice Conference dedicated to the memory of M.I.
Kovalyov (ICK 2020). (Advances
in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research series,
420). Atlantis Press, online 20 March 2020. 51-56.*
https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200321.083
https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/ick-20/125937296
2020
Poster,
Mark. "Cyberdemocracy, Internet and the Public Sphere." In Internet Culture. Ed. David Porter. London: Routledge, 1997. 85-103.
_____. "La ciberdemocracia, Internet
y la esfera pública." In Literatura
y cibercultura. Ed. Domingo Sánchez-Mesa. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2004.
Rasmussen, David M., ed. Universalism versus Communitarianism. Cambridge
(MA): MIT Press, 1990.
Ray,
Elizabeth C., and Patrick Merle. "The Shared Story: How Narratives Affect
Consumers' Sense of Community and Support for CSAs." Journal of Applied
Communications 109.4 (2025).* (Community-supported agriculture).
https://doi.org/10.4148/1051-0834.2605
https://newprairiepress.org/jac/vol109/iss4/3/
2025
ResearchGate.*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397335672
2025
Rheingold,
Howard. The Virtual Community.
_____. La Comunidad Virtual:
Una sociedad sin fronteras. Barcelona: Gedisa, 1996.
Rutherford,
Jonathan. Identity, Community, Culture,
Difference. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990.
Sabin,
Margery. The Dialect of the Tribe: Speech
and Community in Modern Fiction. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
Said,
Edward. "Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community." In The Politics of Interpretation. Ed. W.
J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.
_____. "Adversarios, públicos,
partidarios y comunidad." In Said, Reflexiones
sobre el exilio: Ensayos literarios y culturales. Madrid: Debate, 2005. 127-62.*
Sell, Roger
D. "What's Literary Communication and What's a Literary Community?"
In Emergent Literatures and
Globalisation: Theory, Society, Politics. Ed. Sonia Faessel and Michel
Pérez. Paris: In Press Editions, 2004. 39-45.*
Sennett,
Richard. "The Myth of Purified Community." In Sennett, The The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity
and City Life. New York: Knopf, 1970.
Simons,
John. "Beyond Human Communities: Self-Identity, Animal Rights and
Vegetarianism." Critical Survey
8.1 (1996): 49-57.*
Smith, M. A., and Peter Kollock. Communities in Cyberspace. London:
Routledge, 1999.
Srinivasan, Balaji. The Network State:
How to Start a New Country.
https://thenetworkstate.com
2022
Stapledon,
Olaf. "Education for Personality-in-Community." New Era in Home and School 27 (March 1946): 63-67.
Studdert, David, and Valerie
Walkerdine Rethinking Community Research: Inter-relationality, Communal
Being and Commonality. London: Springer – Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.*
http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/25311/1/148.pdf
2025
Teubner,
Cory S. "Double Negatives, Present Absences, and Other Non-Nos: Dialogic
Community Action in Ana Castillo's So Far
from God." Mester 40.1 (2011): 67-80.
Thiebaut, Carlos. Los límites de la comunidad. Madrid: Centros de Estudios
Constitucionales, 1992. Rev. Revista de
Occidente 165 (1995): 151-53.
Touraine, Alain. Un nouveau paradigme. Paris: Fayard, 2005.
_____. Un nuevo paradigma para comprender el mundo de hoy. Trans. Augstín
López Tobajas and María Tabuyo. (Paidós Estado y Sociedad, 135). Barcelona,
Buenos Aires, Mexico: Paidós, 2005.* (Primera parte: Cuando hablábamos de
nosotros en términos sociales; Segunda parte: Ahora que hablamos de nosotros en
términos culturales). (9/11,
Modernity, globalization, capitalism, European union, society, political
theory, individualism, subject, rights, citizenship, multiculturalism, Islam,
women, communities, development).
Valle
Alcalá, Roberto del. "British Socialism(s) and the Postwar Refoundation of
Community." In New Perspectives on
English Studies. [32nd International Conference of AEDEAN, Nov. 2008]. CD-ROM. Ed. Marian Amengual et al. Palma: U de les Illes Balears,
2009.*
Venuti,
Lawrence. "Translation, Community, Utopia." 2000. In The Translation Studies Reader. Ed.
Lawrence Venuti. London: Routledge, 2000. 2001. 468-88.*
Walker
Rettberg, Jill. "Blogs, Communities and Networks." In Walker, Blogging. Cambridge (UK) and Malden
(MA): Polity Press, 2008. 57-83.*
Wall,
Steven. Liberalism, Perfection and
Restraint. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, c. 1998. (Toleration, values,
community, government, politics).
Wenger, Etienne. Communities of Practice: Learning Meaning
and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Worthington,
Kim L. Self as Narrative: Subjectivity
and Community in Contemporary Fiction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.*
Young, Iris
Marion. "The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference." In Feminism/Postmodernism. Ed. Linda J.
Nicholson. New York: Routledge, 1990. 300-23.*
Zane,
Kathleen. "Gender and Space Inversions and the Intervention of Community
as Strategies in Asian American Literature." In Actas del XII Congreso Nacional de la
Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Alicante: AEDEAN,
1991. 281-8.*
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Films
Things
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and Legacy of René Girard) 25 Dec. 2024.* (Anthropology, Mimetic desire,
Rivalry, Violence, Scapegoats, Sacred, Ritual, Communities, Christianity,
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2024
Literature
Donne,
John. "No Man Is an Island." From Devotions
upon Emergent Occasions. In The
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Kafka, Franz. [Una comunidad de infames] In Kafka, Cuentos completos (Textos originales). Introd. and trans. José
Rafael Hernández Arias. Madrid: Valdemar, 2003. 471.*
_____. [Comunidad] In Kafka, Cuentos
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Saramago,
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2024
Fridman, Lex. "Balaji Srinivasan:
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Wikipedia, Social media and communities, Pseudonyms, Online identity,
Surveillance, Nomadism, Libertarianism, Startup nations, Israel, Science,
Computerization, Blockchain, Regulations, Bureaucracy, FDA, Coronavirus, Trump,
Reputation, Tests, Feedback, User reviews, Information, Evaluation, Agencies,
Pharmaceutical companies, Web 2.0, Data, Medicine and health care, Wokes,
Cryptocurrency, Science, Longevity, Disinformation, Fact-checkers, Twitter,
Journalism, Web 2.0, Freedom)
https://youtu.be/VeH7qKZr0WI
2025
Harari, Yuval Noah. "The Bright Side of
Nationalism." Lecture at the Central European University, Budapest. Video.
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2019
Marín, Higinio. "El origen de la civilización: Una arqueología de lo
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Symbolism, Prohibition, Incest, Family, Community, Matriarchy, St. Augustine,
Cannibalism, Odyssey, Hospitality and the Other, Private Property,
Theft, Clans and Law, Twins, Religion; Offspring, Mothers, Burials, Death and
Absence, Antigone, Homes, Temples, Resentment; Sacred; Memory).
https://youtu.be/2wnD-RLbJOA
2025
Weinstein, Bret, et al. "Bret
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Institutions, Cheating, Lobbies, Big pharma, Scenarios, Covidianism, Globalism,
Social engineering, Immigration, Communities)
https://youtu.be/DmcaH_Gkj9c
2025
_____, et al. "Bret Weinstein on
Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity – Part 2." Video
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Conspiracies, Conflicts, Cooperation, Group selection, Dawkins, Communities,
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https://youtu.be/3avvi_qwdxk
2025
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