书目名称 | Literary Rooms | 副标题 | The Room in Contempo | 编辑 | Katharina Christ-Pielensticker | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .The four prose texts discussed in .Literary Rooms. position themselves in a literary tradition which highlights the manifold purposes the private room may serve: it is a mirror of the inhabitant, a context in which to position the self, a place of and motor for identity quests, a rich metaphor, and a second skin around the inhabitant’s physical body. Even in times of increasing globalization and urbanization, the room continues to root the inhabitant; it serves as a retreat from the world and as a place in which to (re)negotiate questions of belonging, gender, class, and ethnicity. At the same time, the room is inevitably porous and constantly oscillates between inclusion and exclusion. The literary texts examined in this book are each highly fragmented and gesture towards a fragmentation of the contemporary world out of which they have grown as well as towards an abundance of fragmented self-images. Linking the approaches of narratology, globalization, and spatial criticism,.Literary Rooms. argues that in order to account for the spatial properties of the room, discourses developed during the .spatial turn. need to be extended and reevaluated.. | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | spatial criticism; narratology; globalization; urbanization; Literary Rooms; US Fiction | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63089-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-662-63088-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-662-63089-1 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE |
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