TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bieger,Laura
TI  - Belonging and Narrative: A Theory of the American Novel 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783839446003
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Literary Criticism / American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
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://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8d2ed35d-5dd2-4b11-afdb-b97a33a68372
ER  -