Between Dream Houses And Gods Own Junkyard Architecture And The Built Environment In American Suburban Fiction

Author : Stefanie Strebel
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3772057519
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction written by Stefanie Strebel and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Marta Degani
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 382330481X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education written by Marta Degani and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the contributions to this edited volume an interviewee argues that "English is power". For researchers in the field of English Studies this raises the questions of where the power of English resides and which types and practices of power are implied in the uses of English. Linguists, scholars of literature and culture, and language educators address aspects of these questions in a wide range of contributions. The book shows that the power of English can oscillate between empowerment and subjection, on the one hand enabling humans to develop manifold capabilities and on the other constraining their scope of action and reflection. In this edited volume, a case is made for self-critical English Studies to be dialogic, empowering and power-critical in approach.

Author : Katrin Thomson
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823303759
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classroom Discourse Competence written by Katrin Thomson and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In language learning contexts, the role of the language teacher is a particularly crucial one: it is the teacher who, through and with their use of (the foreign) language, has a significant influence on the extent to which language learners are linguistically/cognitively activated, and thus determines whether processes of language learning are initiated and promoted, or perhaps even impeded or prevented. Thus, it is of utmost importance for language teachers to acquire a high level of classroom discourse competence (CDC) - a professional competence that goes far beyond the notions of FL proficiency and communicative competence. Located at the intersection of theory, classroom research and practical approaches to (E)FL teacher education, Classroom Discourse Competence: Current Issues in Language Teaching and Teacher Education offers university students, trainee teachers, in-service teachers and teacher educators a comprehensive conceptualization of CDC (Part I). Furthermore, the chapters in this book explore facets of CDC (Part II) and present good-practice examples of CDC development in the context of pre-service teacher education (Part III).

Author : Ruth Trüb
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823303511
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Empirical Study of EFL Writing at Primary School written by Ruth Trüb and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a research study investigating young foreign language learners' ability to compose communicative texts in English. It reviews current research on young learners' EFL writing, reports on the learners' EFL writing competence, describes text quality at different CEFR language levels, and discusses current teaching practices and the learners' perception of EFL writing.

Author : Simone Höhn
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3772001238
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels written by Simone Höhn and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines concepts of morality and structures of domestic relationships in Samuel Richardson's novels, situating them in the context of eighteenth-century moral writings and reader reactions. Based on a detailed analysis of Richardson's work, this book maintains that he sought both to uphold hierarchical concepts of individual duty, and to warn of the consequences if such hierarchies were abused. In his final novel, Richardson aimed at a synthesis between social hierarchy and individual liberty, patriarchy and female self-fulfilment. His work, albeit rooted in patriarchal values, paved the way for proto-feminist conceptions of female character.

Author : Rebecca K. Hahn
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823302175
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Side-Stepping Normativity in Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner written by Rebecca K. Hahn and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Side-Stepping Normativity: Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner discusses Sylvia Townsend Warner's highly innovative narrative style, which does not conform to conventional modernist or postmodernist standards, and explores how Warner's short stories shift to off-centre positions. Side-Stepping Normativity further outlines the way in which Warner constantly challenges the categories we apply to classify our surroundings and analyses how Warner succeeds in creating queer, that is, non-heteronormative as well strange and peculiar stories without explicitly opposing the so-called norms of her time. In this, Side-Stepping Normativity joins a vibrant conversation in queer studies which revolves around the question how critics can approach literary texts from a non-antagonistic position. Rather than focussing on the role of the critic, however, this thesis shows that Warner's texts have long achieved what queer theorists seek to achieve on an analytical level.

Author : Environmental Communications (Firm : Venice, Calif.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1979 Catalog written by Environmental Communications (Firm : Venice, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870708589
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream written by and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Dream written by Gwendolyn Wright and published by New York : Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned essentially with the model of domestic environment in this country, as it has evolved from colonial architecture through current urban projects.

Author : Keith Krumwiede
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038600022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Another America written by Keith Krumwiede and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Owning a home is a cornerstone of the American Dream, the ultimate status symbol in the land of the free. But is the dream in crisis? Mass-marketed and endlessly multiplied, the suburban single-family house has become an instrument of global economic calamity and ongoing environmental catastrophe. Never before have we been so badly in need of a reassessment of our cultural values from an architectural perspective."--Back cover.