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Belonging and Narrative A Theory of the American Novel Laura Bieger
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bieger, Laura <p>Laura Bieger, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Niederlande</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narrative Theory.
- American Novel.
- Space and Place.
- Literature.
- America.
- American Studies.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Narrative Theory.
- American Novel.
- Space and Place.
- Literature.
- America.
- American Studies.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Bieger, Belonging and Narrative A Theory of the American Novel
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Laura Bieger is Professor of American Studies, Political Theory and Culture the University of Groningen. She held teaching and research positions at Universität Freiburg, FU Berlin, UC Berkeley, Universität Wien and IFK Wien. Her essays have appeared in New Literary History, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Studies in American Naturalism, Narrative and ZAA. She is currently working on reading publics in U.S. democracy.
- 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.
- Besprochen in:IDA-NRW, 4 (2018)
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- ISBN:
- 9783839446003
- 3839446007
- OCLC:
- 1076412711
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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