Belonging and Narrative

Laura Bieger

ISBN 10: 3837646009 / ISBN 13: 9783837646009

Published by Transcript Verlag Apr 2025, 2025

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Belonging and Narrative
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Apr 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837646009
• ISBN 13: 9783837646009
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 13D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 292 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Laura Bieger (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt American Studies an der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Forschungs- und Lehraufenthalte in Freiburg, Berlin, Berkeley und Wien. Sie publiziert u.a. in New Literary History, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Studies in American Naturalism, Narrative und ZAA.