TY  - GEN
T1  - Waiting for the sky to fall : the age of verticality in American narrative
A1  - Mackay, Ruth, 1985-
LA  - English
PP  - Columbus
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn957127239
AB  - "Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative by Ruth Mackay traces the figures of flight, grievous falls, and collapsing towers, all of which haunt American narratives before and after 9/11. Mackay examines how these events prefigure 9/11, exploring the narrative residue left by the "end" of horizontal space--when settlers reached America's Pacific Coast, leaving nowhere westward on the continent to go. She then continues into the aftermath of the fall of the Twin Towers. This period of time marks an era of verticality: an age that offers a transformed concept of the limits of space, entwined with a sense of anxiety and trepidation."
AB  - "With this study, Mackay asks: In what oblique ways has verticality leaked into American narrative? Why do metaphors of up and down recur across the twentieth century? With close readings of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Winsor McCay's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, Upton Sinclair's Oil! and its film rendering There Will Be Blood, Allen Ginsberg's poetic dissections of the nuclear bomb, and Leslie Marmon Silko's imagining of flight in Almanac of the Dead, this interdisciplinary study culminates with a discussion of Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. Waiting for the Sky to Fall examines how vertical representation cleaves to, and often transforms the associations of, specific events that are physically and visually disorienting, disquieting, or even traumatic"--Publisher's description
OP  - 255
CN  - PS369
SN  - 9780814274149
SN  - 0814274145
SN  - 9780814213087
SN  - 0814213081
KW  - American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American fiction : 21st century : History and criticism.
KW  - American fiction : 20th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - American fiction : 21st century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Place (Philosophy)
KW  - Space and time in literature.
KW  - Space perception in literature.
KW  - Anxiety in literature.
KW  - Metaphor in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman américain : 21e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Roman américain : 21e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Lieu (Philosophie)
KW  - Perception spatiale dans la littérature.
KW  - Métaphore dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Space and time
KW  - 1900-2099
KW  - Verticality in literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -