Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative

Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative

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Author/Contributor(s): MacKay, Ruth
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Date: 09/02/2018
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Waiting for the Sky to Fall considers how vertical events - disorienting, catastrophic, traumatic - are imagined to be ever imminent. It asks why figures of flight, grievous falls, and collapsing towers haunt American narratives to produce an age of verticality determined by a consuming sense of anxiety and awe.