Waiting for the sky to fall : the age of verticality in American narrative / / Ruth Mackay
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| Autore: |
Mackay Ruth <1985->
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| Titolo: |
Waiting for the sky to fall : the age of verticality in American narrative / / Ruth Mackay
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/005 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| Place (Philosophy) | |
| Space and time | |
| Metaphor | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Waiting for the sky to fall |
| ISBN: | 0-8142-7414-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910137077103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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