Mapping home in contemporary narratives. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Aleksandra Bida.
• Authors: Bida, Aleksandra
• Contents: Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Literary Homecomings and Haunted Extremes; A Multi-scalar Paradigm for Home; Mapping the Overlapping Scales of Home; Part I Home on an Individual Scale and the Philosophy of Learning to Dwell; Chapter 2 Heidegger and "Dwelling"; Dwelling, or That Which Defines Human Beings; The Stable Domus and Modern Mobility; Learning to Be at Home in the Multi-scalar; Chapter 3 The Labyrinthine Home in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves; The Labyrinthine Home as "The State of Dwelling" Mobility as a Growing Source of UprootingUnheimlich: Finding, Seeking, Repeating; Chapter 4 Homecoming in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere; Homecoming in "Our Precarious Age"; New Means and Modes of Dwelling; Unheimlich: Unexpectedly at Home; Part II Home on an Interpersonal Scale and the Economics of Mobility; Chapter 5 Bauman and "Liquid Modernity"; Liquid Modernity, Flows, and Flux; The Modus Vivendi of a Stranger; A Modus Co-vivendi Despite Liquidity; Chapter 6 "Roots" and Stability in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village; An Escape from the Enmity and Greed of Liquid Modernity Seeking to Buy Stability in a Liquid Modern WorldThe Gated Community as Homesickness and an Unstable "Ideal"; Chapter 7 "Routes" and Mobility in Nicolas Dickner's Nikolski; The Privilege of Mobility in Liquid Mobility; Pirates, Passersby, and "Applied Nomadology"; The Liquid Modern Home as a Complex Map; Part III Home on a Social Scale and the Politics of (Hostile) Hospitality; Chapter 8 Derrida and "Hostipitality"; Deconstructing Home and Hospitality; The Designations of Home-Makers and Guests; Recovering Home Through "Hostipitality" Chapter 9 Welcome as House Arrest in Lars von Trier's DogvillePublic and Private Hospitality in the Town of Dogville; Identifying (Un)Welcome Strangers and Guests; Home or Not: A Failure to Conceptualize the Multi-scalar Home; Chapter 10 "Home Safe" in Spite of Hostility in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!; Public and Private Histories in Good Bye, Lenin!; "Giving Place" to But Also as Guests; Home and Not: The Home-Maker as Host and Guest; Part IV Home on a Global Scale and the Relevance of Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 11 Appiah and Cosmopolitan "Contamination" Multi-scalar Obligations and CosmopolitanismA Homogeneous Global Dream of Home; Multi-local Global Homes; Chapter 12 Economic Globalization and Home in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel; Jet-Setters, Migrants, and (Un)Willing Tourist; The Politics of Access and Ownership; The Possibilities of Conversations and Contamination; Chapter 13 Global "at Homeness" in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the Wachowskis/Tykwer Film; Connectivity, Contamination, and Community; The Intangible Links of Inclusion; Mapping the Multi-scalar Across Rooms, Neighborhoods, and Worlds; Chapter 14 Conclusion
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 155.2; Literature; Self-perception; Geocriticism; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development; PSYCHOLOGY / General; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Fiction -- General; Literary theory; Fiction & related items; Fiction; Literary studies: from c 1900; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319979670; 3319979671
• Related ISBNs: 9783319979663
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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