Fantasies of the Bookstore Muse Eben J.
Fantasies of the Bookstore Muse Eben J. This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play…
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Fantasies of the Bookstore Muse Eben J.
This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified.
Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions.
The Bookstore Cat
Plague of Fantasies
The Muse
The Muse
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
Muse of Nightmares
Muse of Nightmares
The Tenth Muse
The Whispering Muse