{"product_id":"9783662630884","title":"Literary Rooms: The Room in Contemporary US Fiction by Auster, Hustvedt, Powers, and Foer","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLiterary Rooms: The Room in Contemporary US Fiction by Auster, Hustvedt, Powers, and Foer\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eChrist-Pielensticker, Katharina\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four prose texts discussed in \u003ci\u003eLiterary Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e 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,\u003ci\u003eLiterary Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e argues that in order to account for the spatial properties of the room, discourses developed during the \u003ci\u003espatial turn\u003c\/i\u003e need to be extended and reevaluated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: J.B. Metzler\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-03-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783662630884\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-662-63089-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 306\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589646409868,"sku":"9783662630884","price":80.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783662630884.jpg?v=1776050788","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783662630884","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}