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The Re-Use of Urban Ruins

Atmospheric Inquiries of the City

By: Hanna Katharina Göbel

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The Re-Use of Urban Ruins

Atmospheric Inquiries of the City

By: Hanna Katharina Göbel

How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry.

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Routledge

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1317630211

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The Urban Masterplanning Handbook

By: Eric Firley,Katharina Groen

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The Urban Masterplanning Handbook

By: Eric Firley,Katharina Groen

A highly illustrated reference tool, this handbook provides comparative visual analysis of major urban extensions and masterplans around the world. It places an important new emphasis on the processes and structures that influence urban form, highlighting the significant impact that public or private landownership, management and funding might have on shaping a particular project. Each of the book’s 20 subjects is rigorously analysed through original diagrams, scale drawings and descriptive texts, which are complemented by key statistics and colour photography. The case studies are presented in order of size rather than date or geographical location. This offers design professionals, developers and city planners, as well as students of architecture and urban design informed organisational and formal comparisons, leading to intriguing insights. A wide geographical range of contemporary and historic masterplans are featured. These encompass European projects from the 19th century to the present day: Belgravia in London, Sarphatipark in Amsterdam, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, La Défense Seine Arche in Paris and Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm. In North America, the postwar development of Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan is also the subject of a case study. More recent and ongoing international urban schemes are included, such as Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Downtown Dubai and the New Central Business District in Beijing.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118942000

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Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason's in Country

By: Katharina Eder

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Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason's in Country

By: Katharina Eder

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: Bobbie Ann Mason is one of the most important southern female writers at the end of the 20th century. Joseph M. Flora in his contribution to the The History of Southern Women's Literature notes that "apart from Eudora Welty, few have more national visibility" (550). A number of Mason's short stories were re-published in anthologies (see KcKee 359); her novel In Country became part of the syllabus in many high schools and colleges since its publication in 1985, and the 1989 Hollywood film adaptation starring Bruce Willis made her work accessible to an even broader audience. The critics have also shown a keen interest in her work as the huge number of overwhelmingly positive literary reviews and academic publications demonstrate (see Flora, Fiction 282-285). The topics Mason raises in her work seem to strike a chord with both the general as well as the professional readers. As one scholar put it, the most important innovation of the contemporary realist authors such as Mason "is their ability to portray the experiences of people from a lower economic class with realism, complexity, and dignity". (Hovis, K Mart 395f.) In her work, Bobbie Ann Mason describes a contemporary southern society from a white working-class perspective, mostly places and characters that are well known to her, without looking down on what could be perceived as their lack of education or backwardness. It also reflects the socio-economic, historical and cultural changes and the loss of traditional certainties that the U.S., and in her case particularly the rural and semi-rural areas of Kentucky, have faced over the last century. In In Country, Mason pays homage to the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s that have played a pivotal role in the shaping of western societies as we know them today; the all-pervading theme, however, is the V

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3640916646

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Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason’s "In Country" (1985)

By: Katharina Eder

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Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason’s "In Country" (1985)

By: Katharina Eder

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: Bobbie Ann Mason is one of the most important southern female writers at the end of the 20th century. Joseph M. Flora in his contribution to the The History of Southern Women’s Literature notes that “apart from Eudora Welty, few have more national visibility” (550). A number of Mason’s short stories were re-published in anthologies (see KcKee 359); her novel In Country became part of the syllabus in many high schools and colleges since its publication in 1985, and the 1989 Hollywood film adaptation starring Bruce Willis made her work accessible to an even broader audience. The critics have also shown a keen interest in her work as the huge number of overwhelmingly positive literary reviews and academic publications demonstrate (see Flora, Fiction 282-285). The topics Mason raises in her work seem to strike a chord with both the general as well as the professional readers. As one scholar put it, the most important innovation of the contemporary realist authors such as Mason “is their ability to portray the experiences of people from a lower economic class with realism, complexity, and dignity”. (Hovis, K Mart 395f.) In her work, Bobbie Ann Mason describes a contemporary southern society from a white working-class perspective, mostly places and characters that are well known to her, without looking down on what could be perceived as their lack of education or backwardness. It also reflects the socio-economic, historical and cultural changes and the loss of traditional certainties that the U.S., and in her case particularly the rural and semi-rural areas of Kentucky, have faced over the last century. In In Country, Mason pays homage to the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s that have played a pivotal role in the shaping of western societies as we know them today; the all-pervading theme, however, is the Vietnam War and its aftermath. This paper will focus on a particular aspect fostered by the historical events and developments of the 1960s and 1970s, namely the dissolution of conventional binary oppositions such as that of “Man” and “Woman”, elitist and mass culture, reality and fiction, past and present, “the North” and “the South” and the trespassing of boundaries in Mason’s novel In Country.[...]

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3640916832

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Simulacra and Nothingness in Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero"

By: Katharina Wagner

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Simulacra and Nothingness in Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero"

By: Katharina Wagner

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar I), course: American Postmodern Literature, language: English, abstract: With his debut novel Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis set a milestone for a generation, who needed a voice. First published in 1985 when he was 21 and still at Bennington College, Ellis is now considered as the 'celebrity author' of the postmodern era, using the minimalist style for which the novel became famous. Writers of postmodern fiction, also called 'Blank Fiction', elegantly use a minimalist plot with flat characters in a simple style and as validated member of the 'Brat Pack', Ellis combines urban life, violence, drugs and consumerism. In the novel we follow Clay, the 18-year-old protagonist and student at Camden College in New Hampshire, coming back to Los Angeles for Christmas break. Experiencing several parties, concerts, affairs and drugs with his old friends, Clay explores the apathy, boredom and alienation from his old life. Although criticized for Ellis's straight nihilism, integrating his own celebrity persona into his art and creating a universe of immature characters who seem to grow older but without any growing effect, it is questionable, if Less Than Zero is only just that – a world inhabited by rich and shallow characters without any purpose. With the help of Jean Baudrillard's simulation theory and Sartre's theory of Being and Nothingness, which will be introduced before analyzing the novel, this paper will address Clays world of simulacra and Nothingness and argue for this being the purpose of the novel; creating a meaningless world. Through conversations and media, a Clay becomes visible, who seeks for more beyond the surface and shallowness and although the novel does not seem to follow a red thread, it suggests that Ellis as an author of 'blank fiction' is well aware of what he is doing with Less Than Zero. How can a novel be a how-to-torture, but also a book of serious ambition? (Baelo-Allué 2011) This paper will show that an 'in-between' is possible; an 'in-between' between “pornographic gore” and “serious postmodern literature” - and maybe the two phrases do not contradict each other so much as assumed.

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334610821X

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Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work - On Black-Canadian Literature, Hip Hop aesthetics and avantgardistic black poetry

By: Katharina Eder

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Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work - On Black-Canadian Literature, Hip Hop aesthetics and avantgardistic black poetry

By: Katharina Eder

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The following paper is concerned with the artist Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work. In the beginning, Compton ́s life as well as some insights into the historical and socio-cultural background that characterize the author ́s life and his works will be described. A discussion on Compton ́s view on topics such as Black Englishes, Hip Hop oralities and Turntable Pluralities follows, after which the paper will provide some information on the poetry collection Performance Bond as well as other works by Wayde Compton. After an explanation concering the field of „Hip Hop aesthetics“ as well as a discussion of Compton ́s poem „Declaration of the Halfrican Nation“, the paper concludes with a presentation of „mixed-race“ or „hyphenated“ writers and their work aside from Wayde Compton.

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3640915690

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9783640915699

Henry Roth "Call it sleep" - an Analysis

By: Katharina Eder

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Henry Roth "Call it sleep" - an Analysis

By: Katharina Eder

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The New York Times described Roth’s novel Call it Sleep as “One of the few genuinely distinguished novels written by a twentieth-century American” (Roth blurb). The book tells us about David Schearl, child of Jewish immigrants in the first decades of the 19th century. Similarities between the author’s biography and David’s life are quite obvious. This paper will give a short overview of the author’s life and point out a few similarities with the book. After a brief abstract of the novel’s content the focus will be on identity created through language and the Jewish origin of the character. Identity is a very important motif in Roth’s novel and it is influenced by the history of Jewish immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side, as well as by the urban experiences of the character. David searches for his own identity within and outside of his own community. In the following parts Roth’s technique will be explained by Cohn’s theory of psycho-narration, with a focus on the modernist climax in the penultimate chapter. The paper ends in the conclusion that Roth’s novel is about the search of identity, depicted through a variety of methods.

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3640915755

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The Presentation of a Hybrid Identity in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill

Food and Habitation as Ethnic Markers and Chinese Canadians

By: Katharina Eder

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The Presentation of a Hybrid Identity in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill

Food and Habitation as Ethnic Markers and Chinese Canadians

By: Katharina Eder

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The following seminar paper is concerned with the presentation of a hybrid identity in Fred Wah ́s Diamond Grill and the cultural significance of food. In the beginning, the most important stages of the author ́s life shall help to embed the story in its historical and socio-cultural context. After a detailed discussion on the symbolic meaning of food, with various examples providing insight into the many functions that food takes in daily life and human existence, as well as its crucial role in the context of communities, the paper will shift its focus to the text itself. The term "biotext" and its emergence will be discussed and information on identity, ethnicity, other important themes and issues in the text and the language employed by Wah will be given. The last part of this paper constitutes its centrepiece, in which food as a metaphor and its cultural significance as a multilayered strategy and trope in postcolonial life writing will be discussed. The culinary language employed in Wah ́s innovative discourse of Diamond Grill makes the concept of food a metonymy of the elaboration of identity and culture. The use of food as a metaphor in the author ́s culinary memoirs will be discussed, and the way in which the metaphor of food provides an axis for the understanding of Wah ́s explorations of his socio-cultural background will be explained in more detail.

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3640915445

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The presentation of a hybrid identity in Fred Wah ́s "Diamond Grill": Food and habitation as ethnic markers and Chinese Canadians

By: Katharina Eder

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The presentation of a hybrid identity in Fred Wah ́s "Diamond Grill": Food and habitation as ethnic markers and Chinese Canadians

By: Katharina Eder

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The following seminar paper is concerned with the presentation of a hybrid identity in Fred Wah ́s Diamond Grill and the cultural significance of food. In the beginning, the most important stages of the author ́s life shall help to embed the story in its historical and socio-cultural context. After a detailed discussion on the symbolic meaning of food, with various examples providing insight into the many functions that food takes in daily life and human existence, as well as its crucial role in the context of communities, the paper will shift its focus to the text itself. The term „biotext“ and its emergence will be discussed and information on identity, ethnicity, other important themes and issues in the text and the language employed by Wah will be given. The last part of this paper constitutes its centrepiece, in which food as a metaphor and its cultural significance as a multilayered strategy and trope in postcolonial life writing will be discussed. The culinary language employed in Wah ́s innovative discourse of Diamond Grill makes the concept of food a metonymy of the elaboration of identity and culture. The use of food as a metaphor in the author ́s culinary memoirs will be discussed, and the way in which the metaphor of food provides an axis for the understanding of Wah ́s explorations of his socio-cultural background will be explained in more detail.

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3640915682

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Form and Functions of Aboriginality in Kim Scott's Benang 'From the Heart'

By: Katharina Dellbrügge

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Form and Functions of Aboriginality in Kim Scott's Benang 'From the Heart'

By: Katharina Dellbrügge

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: Classics of Australian Literature in English, language: English, abstract: This term paper wants to examine the forms and functions of Aboriginality in Kim Scott's novel Benang: From the Heart. Published in 1999 as the author's second novel, it gained great attention and also won the Miles Franklin Award. Kim Scott is a descendant of the Nyoongar people who have at all times inhabited the south-east coast of Western Australia. They used to be a large homogenous group that shared a common language and culture until the first white settlers landed on their continent. Apart from general mistreatment of these people, Kim Scott's novel illustrates how an institutionalized genocide of them and other Aboriginal people was attempted. The story not only includes individual stories of several Aboriginal characters, but also official documents, newspaper articles, letters and reports. Like that, Scott creates a counter-narrative to colonial history and gives voices to those who were oppressed by legislations and racism. The paper focuses on one type of Aboriginality, namely Harley's discovered Aboriginality. This closer investigation includes the other aspects to some extent, as all of them are closely intertwined. In the course of my survey I will try to work out Scott's way of representing certain aspects and which implications his choice might have for the interpretation of his novel, especially concerning the implications for a construction of Aboriginal identity and for the establishment of a new historical discourse.

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3640545877

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Vienna

By: AAA Publishing,Hanne Egghardt,Katharina Kunz

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Vienna

By: AAA Publishing,Hanne Egghardt,Katharina Kunz

An innovative series of pocket-size travel guides featuring lay-flat spiral bindings and full-color illustrations provides valuable information on a wide range of popular travel destinations, including recommendations for restaurants and lodging, locator maps, attractions and landmarks, shopping tips, and more.

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159508066X

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9781595080660

Germany and the Germans

By: John Ardagh,Katharina Ardagh

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Germany and the Germans

By: John Ardagh,Katharina Ardagh

Captures the diversity and contradicitons of Germany in the mid-1990s.

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Penguin Mass Market

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0140252665

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9780140252668

Puppies

By: Katharina Von der Leyen

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Puppies

By: Katharina Von der Leyen

Puppies aren't merely dogs--they're baby dogs, and like all babies, they need extra special care. Here's a fun-to-read book filled with practical information on everything a first-time puppy owner needs to know--how to find a reliable place to purchase a dog . . . how to choose a puppy from a litter . . . dog and master--getting used to each other . . . training and housebreaking a puppy . . . relationships between puppy and children . . . and tips on nutritious feeding and health care. Also important to new dog owners is a detailed explanation of normal puppy growth and development, plus a general description of puppy personalities according to breed. Puppies is beautifully illustrated with more than 125 delightful color photos. Helpful sidebars contain added tips for owners.

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0764116010

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9780764116018

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The Re-Use of Urban Ruins

The Re-Use of Urban Ruins

The Urban Masterplanning Handbook

The Urban Masterplanning Handbook

Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason's in Country

Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason's in Country

Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason’s "In Country" (1985)

Blurring the Boundaries in Bobby Ann Mason’s "In Country" (1985)

Simulacra and Nothingness in Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero"

Simulacra and Nothingness in Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero"

Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work - On Black-Canadian Literature, Hip Hop aesthetics and avantgardistic black poetry

Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work - On Black-Canadian Literature, Hip Hop aesthetics and avantgardistic black poetry

Henry Roth "Call it sleep" - an Analysis

Henry Roth "Call it sleep" - an Analysis

The Presentation of a Hybrid Identity in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill

The Presentation of a Hybrid Identity in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill

The presentation of a hybrid identity in Fred Wah ́s "Diamond Grill": Food and habitation as ethnic markers and Chinese Canadians

The presentation of a hybrid identity in Fred Wah ́s "Diamond Grill": Food and habitation as ethnic markers and Chinese Canadians

Form and Functions of Aboriginality in Kim Scott's Benang 'From the Heart'

Form and Functions of Aboriginality in Kim Scott's Benang 'From the Heart'

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