| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Lettre |
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Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
America |
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American Novel |
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American Studies |
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Cultural History |
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Cultural Studies |
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Literary Studies |
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Literature |
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Space and Place |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018) |
| In |
De Gruyter Open Books. De Gruyter |
| Subject |
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. Edgar Huntly.
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Country of the pointed firs.
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Roth, Henry. Call it sleep.
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Powers, Richard, 1957- Echo maker.
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| SUBJECT |
Call it sleep (Roth, Henry) fast |
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Country of the pointed firs (Jewett, Sarah Orne) fast |
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Edgar Huntly (Brown, Charles Brockden) fast |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Belonging (Social psychology) in literature
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Roman
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783839446003 |
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3839446007 |
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3837646009 |
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9783837646009 |
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