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Between Dream Houses and Gods Own Junkyard: Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) 148
ISBN/EAN: 9783772087516
Umbreit-Nr.: 608413
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 228 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 28.06.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- This study deals with the representation of architecture and the built environment in American suburban literature and film from the 1920s until present. It explores how the American suburb has developed into a place of non-architecture in both reality and fiction, focusing on topics such as architectural mass production, eclecticism and suburban sprawl.
- Autorenportrait
- Dr. Stefanie Strebel arbeitet an der Universität Zürich im Bereich Open Science und Forschungsdatenmanagement.