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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mackay, Ruth, 1985- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Place (Philosophy) Space and time. Metaphor. American fiction. 1900-2099 Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of 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.