TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bieger,Laura
TI  - Belonging and Narrative: A Theory of the American Novel 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783839446003
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript-Verlag, 
KW  - America
KW  - American Novel
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Space and Place
KW  - Roman
KW  - gnd
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839446003
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ER  -