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Record Nr.

UNISA996328038203316

Autore

Bieger Laura

Titolo

Belonging and Narrative : A Theory of the American Novel / Laura Bieger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

ISBN

3-8394-4600-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 pages)

Collana

Lettre

Classificazione

HR 1800-HR 1819

Disciplina

813.009

Soggetti

Narrative Theory; American Novel; Space and Place; Literature; America; American Studies; Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Preface    7  1. Belonging, Narrative, and the Art of the Novel    13  2. Poisoned Letters from a Gothic Frontier    41  3. The Art of Attachment    73  4. Dwelling in What is Found    105  5. Of Cranes and Brains    135  Works Cited    163

Sommario/riassunto

Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continuously produced by narrative. Against the current emphasis on metaphors of movement and destabilization, she explores the salience and significance of home. Challenging views of narrative as a mechanism of ideology, she approaches narrative as a practical component of dwelling in the world - and the novel a primary place-making agent.

O-Ton: »US elections: is US media more polarized than the people?« - Laura Bieger in The Northern Times on 02.12.2020.    Besprochen in:  IDA-NRW, 4 (2018)