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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mackay, Ruth, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Temas:
1900-2099
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > Themes, motives.
American fiction > 21st century > Themes, motives.
Place (Philosophy)
Space and time in literature.
Space perception in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Metaphor in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Lieu (Philosophie)
Perception spatiale dans la littérature.
Métaphore dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American fiction
Metaphor
Space and time
Verticality in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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