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

By:

Bieger, Laura [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9783839446003
3839446007
3837646009
9783837646009

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Additional physical formats: No title; No title; Print version:: Belonging and Narrative.DDC classification:

810/820

LOC classification:

PS371 .B54 2018eb

Other classification:

HR 1800-HR 1819

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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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.

In English.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018).