02000nam 2200493 450 991013707710332120230808194759.00-8142-7414-5(CKB)3710000000828967(MiAaPQ)EBC4644451(EXLCZ)99371000000082896720160429h20162016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWaiting for the sky to fall the age of verticality in American narrative /Ruth MackayColumbus :The Ohio State University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (219 pages) illustrations0-8142-5363-6 0-8142-1308-1 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismPlace (Philosophy)Space and timeMetaphorAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Place (Philosophy)Space and time.Metaphor.810.9/005Mackay Ruth1985-1249821MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910137077103321Waiting for the sky to fall2896123UNINA