A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
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.
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.
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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García Landa, José Angel. "Communities." Excelhonour
2014
Films
Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard. Dir. Sam Sorich. Prod. Sam Sorich and Trevor Cribben Merrill. Glass Darkly Films, 2024. YouTube (Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard) 25 Dec. 2024.* (Anthropology, Mimetic desire, Rivalry, Violence, Scapegoats, Sacred, Ritual, Communities, Christianity, Biblical exegesis)
2024
Literature
Donne, John. "No Man Is an Island." From Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. In The Norton Reader. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 1992. 277.*
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 completos (Textos originales). Introd. and trans. José Rafael Hernández Arias. Madrid: Valdemar, 2003. 494-95.*
Saramago, José. Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. Novel. 1995.
_____. Ensayo sobre la ceguera. Trans. Basilio Losada. Madrid: Santillana-Alfaguara, 1996.*
Video
Desmet, Mattias (Prof.). "Are You Suffering from Mass Formation Psychosis?" Video intervew by Flo Read. YouTube (UnHerd) 17 Oct. 2024.* (Le Bon, Coronavirus, Scams, Herd spirit, Collective lunacy, Propaganda, Loneliness, Anxiety, Empathy, Religion, Totalitarianism, Communities).
2024
Fridman, Lex. "Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA – Lex Fridman Podcast #331." Video interview with Lex Fridman. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 20 Oct. 2022.* (Artificial intelligence, American character, Government, Economy, 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)
2025
Harari, Yuval Noah. "The Bright Side of Nationalism." Lecture at the Central European University, Budapest. Video. YouTube (Yuval Noah Harari) 19 May 2019.* (Strangers, nepotism, communities, tribalism).
2019
Marín, Higinio. "El origen de la civilización: Una arqueología de lo humano." Video lecture. YouTube (Facultad de Teología – Universidad de Navarra).* (Anthropology; 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).
2025
Weinstein, Bret, et al. "Bret Weinstein on Epstein, Globalization, and How Our Institutions Went Insane – Part 1." Video interview. YouTube (Dad Saves America) 4 Sept. 2025.* (Blackmail, Democracy, Corruption, Conspiracies, Control, Elites, Trump, Institutions, Cheating, Lobbies, Big pharma, Scenarios, Covidianism, Globalism, Social engineering, Immigration, Communities)
2025
_____, et al. "Bret Weinstein on Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity – Part 2." Video interview. YouTube (Dad Saves America) 19 Sept. 2025.* (Antisemitism, Conspiracies, Conflicts, Cooperation, Group selection, Dawkins, Communities, Natural selection).
2025
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