{"product_id":"9781501319846","title":"Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation","description":"Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community \u003c\/i\u003eanalyzes each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interior logic animating his work. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIntegrating 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, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new theoretical approach to a major contemporary author.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126956802288,"sku":"9781501319846","price":43.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501319846_p0.jpg?v=1763707363","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501319846","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}