Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
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...
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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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1400802024-07-09T05:48:56Z Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction Strebel, Stefanie American literature Film Architecture Suburb America thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies 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. 2024-07-09T05:48:54Z 2024-07-09T05:48:54Z 2024-07-08T16:25:37Z 2021 book ONIX_20240708_9783772057519_260 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91923 9783772057519 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/140080 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/91923/1/202401.pdf Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 10.24053/9783772057519 10.24053/9783772057519 22d3344d-ddf3-4d2a-a975-3d47fd10b970 c9fff097-a6b0-4c97-afcd-d033f5f27a3d 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783772057519 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Tübingen 10BP12_202401 Open Access Books Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation 10.13039/501100001711 open access |
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