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Belonging and narrative : a theory of the American novel

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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813.0093552 BIE b
Publisher
Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag.,
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182 p.
Language
English
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9783839446003
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813.0093552
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Literature
American fiction
Belonging (Social psychology) in literature
Edgar Huntly (Brown, Charles Brockden)
Call it sleep (Roth, Henry)
Country of the pointed firs (Jewett, Sarah Orne)
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