Waiting for the sky to fall : the age of verticality in American narrative /
"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 r...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press
[2016]
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvpbnnzt |
书本目录:
- Introduction. The age of verticality : the closure of the frontier to the 9/11 memorial, 1890-2011
- "Down Down Down He Shot" : Winsor Mccay's work, vertical collapse, and time in the modernist city
- Upton Sinclair's Vertical infernos : oil procurement and disaster culture
- "The horizon was an illusion" : flight, escape, and imagining vertical space in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
- Terror/power : Allen Ginsberg's nuclear poetics and the space race
- Traversing vertical space : Philippe Petit's wire-walk, danger, and transformation
- Coda: Up and down stories.