Research Catalog

Title

Multiple normalities : making sense of ways of living / Barbara A. Misztal.

Author

Misztal, Barbara A.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

vii, 249 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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 of normality 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.

Subject

• Literature and society
• Fiction > Social aspects
• Society in literature
• Social norms in literature
• Sociology in literature
• Literature and society
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• History of ideas
• Society
• Sociology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Towards a sociology of normality. How normality became the norm -- Explaining normality in making -- Representations of normality in literature. Literature as an aid in understanding social -- The transgression of solid normality : the novels of the 1950s and 1960s -- The transfiguration of normality : the novels of the 1990s and 2000s -- Making sense of normality. Similarities between the two periods' images of normality -- Differences between the two periods' Images of normality -- Conclusion : the mystery of normality.

ISBN

• 9780230336957
• 0230336957

LCCN

^^2014036775

OCLC

888552900

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library