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1 Online-Ressource (228 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783772057519
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9783772001468
Serie:
Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten Band 148
Inhalt:
The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed from a postwar utopia into a disorienting environment with which it is difficult to identify. The typical suburb has come to display characteristics of an atopia, that is, a space without borders or even a non-place, a generic space of transience. Dealing with the representation of architecture and the built environment in suburban literature and film from the 1920s until present, this study demonstrates that in its fictional representations, too, suburbia has largely turned into a place of non-architecture. A lack of architectural ethos and an abundance of “Junkspace” define suburban narratives, causing an increasing sense of disorientation and entropy in fictional characters.
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Dissertation Universität Zürich 2018
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ISBN 9783772087516
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ISBN 3772087515
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strebel, Stefanie Between dream houses and "God’s own junkyard" Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto, 2021 ISBN 9783772087516
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ISBN 3772087515
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
Schlagwort(e):
USA
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Literatur
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Film
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Vorort
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Architektur
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Geschichte 1920-2020
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.24053/9783772057519
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