Waiting for the sky to fall : the age of verticality in American narrative / / Ruth Mackay

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910137077103321
• Autore: Mackay Ruth <1985->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-8142-7414-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 810.9/005
• Soggetti: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism; Place (Philosophy); Space and time; Metaphor
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.