Add to ORKGWhy 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
Critics of American literature have traditionally examined the use of certain settings, e.g., the wi...
Various epistemological changes – such as the linguistic, narrative, and cultural turns that have i...
The thesis presents the results of practical and theoretical research into narratives and representa...
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel cont...
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel cont...
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel cont...
Changes of residence are common in contemporary Western societies. Traditional connections to birthp...
What does it mean to belong? When we belong, how do we recognise it as belonging? What role does bel...
Belonging is a notion both vaguely defined and ill-theorized. Scholars in various social disciplines...
There is no home in this world for colonising peoples, but the desire for a place or a state to call...
I write and make art from my distinct point of view—which is, that there is no place like home. Beca...
Subjective belonging, defined here as emotional attachments to people and places which give meaning ...
This dissertation explores the representations of the home and the sense of place in contemporary co...
Relying on British, American and Australian novels and self narratives ranging from the 18th to the...
What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character a...
Critics of American literature have traditionally examined the use of certain settings, e.g., the wi...
Various epistemological changes – such as the linguistic, narrative, and cultural turns that have i...
The thesis presents the results of practical and theoretical research into narratives and representa...
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel cont...
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel cont...
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel cont...
Changes of residence are common in contemporary Western societies. Traditional connections to birthp...
What does it mean to belong? When we belong, how do we recognise it as belonging? What role does bel...
Belonging is a notion both vaguely defined and ill-theorized. Scholars in various social disciplines...
There is no home in this world for colonising peoples, but the desire for a place or a state to call...
I write and make art from my distinct point of view—which is, that there is no place like home. Beca...
Subjective belonging, defined here as emotional attachments to people and places which give meaning ...
This dissertation explores the representations of the home and the sense of place in contemporary co...
Relying on British, American and Australian novels and self narratives ranging from the 18th to the...
What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character a...
Critics of American literature have traditionally examined the use of certain settings, e.g., the wi...
Various epistemological changes – such as the linguistic, narrative, and cultural turns that have i...
The thesis presents the results of practical and theoretical research into narratives and representa...