TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bieger, Laura
AB  - 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.
DO  - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839446003
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43862
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - American
KW  - General
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43862/1/external_content.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43862/1/external_content.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38320
PB  - transcript Verlag
PP  - Bielefeld
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9783839446003
TI  - Belonging and Narrative : A Theory of the American Novel (Edition 1)
ER  - 
