Multiple Normalities
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- Synopsis
- Multiple Normalities: Making Sense of Ways of Living enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. Barbara A. Misztal conceptualizes the notion of normality as the frame through which people see and interpret their particular historical circumstances. Assuming that literature constitutes a kind of knowledge about the experience of the social world which is complementary to sociological knowledge, it investigates the representations ofnormality in prize-winning novels published between 1950 and 1970 and between 1990 and 2010. Multiple Normalities analyzes the novels in terms of how their central images of normality demonstrate commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in the two different periods, as well as changes in the experience of a sense of normality in the last sixty years. Misztal, by illustrating the emergence of multiple normalities, demonstrates the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780230336957
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Addition:
- 03/24/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.