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245 10 a| Waiting for the sky to fallh| [electronic resource] :b| the age of verticality in American narrative /c| Ruth Mackay.;

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300 a| xi, 255 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-246) and index.;

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

Author/creator	Mackay, Ruth, 1985-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Description	xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism. American fiction--21st century. --History and criticism. Place (Philosophy) Space and time. Metaphor.

Contents	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-246) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2016012405
ISBN	9780814213087 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0814213081 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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

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