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Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction

Stefanie Strebel

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction. To get started finding Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 274

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Release: 2021

ISBN: 9783772057519

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction. To get started finding Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction

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