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

Author: Stefanie Strebel

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 3772001467

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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.

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

Author: Stefanie Strebel

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 3772057519

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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.

Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education
Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education

Author: Marta Degani

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2023-04-24

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 382330481X

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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.

Classroom Discourse Competence
Classroom Discourse Competence

Author: Katrin Thomson

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2022-04-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 3823303759

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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).

An Empirical Study of EFL Writing at Primary School
An Empirical Study of EFL Writing at Primary School

Author: Ruth Trüb

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2022-05-16

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3823303511

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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.

One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels
One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels

Author: Simone Höhn

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 3772001238

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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.

Side-Stepping Normativity in Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Side-Stepping Normativity in Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Author: Rebecca K. Hahn

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2020-07-27

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3823302175

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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.

1979 Catalog
1979 Catalog

Author: Environmental Communications (Firm : Venice, Calif.)

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13:

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Sophie's World
Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

City of Quartz
City of Quartz

Author: Mike Davis

Publisher: Random House

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0712666230

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Recounts the story of Los Angeles. He tells a tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made Los Angeles one of the most cosmopolitan and most class-divided cities in the United States.