{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-sky-to-fall-the-age-of-verticality-in-american-narrative-paperback","title":"Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e by Ruth Mackay traces the figures of flight, grievous falls, and collapsing towers, all of which haunt American narratives before and after 9\/11. Mackay examines how these events prefigure 9\/11, exploring the narrative residue left by the \"end\" of horizontal space-when settlers reached America's Pacific Coast, leaving nowhere westward on the continent to go. She then continues into the aftermath of the fall of the Twin Towers. This period of time marks an era of verticality: an age that offers a transformed concept of the limits of space, entwined with a sense of anxiety and trepidation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With this study, Mackay asks: In what oblique ways has verticality leaked into American narrative? Why do metaphors of up and down recur across the twentieth century? With close readings of Jonathan Safran Foer's \u003ci\u003eExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close\u003c\/i\u003e, Winsor McCay's comic strip \u003ci\u003eLittle Nemo in Slumberland\u003c\/i\u003e, Upton Sinclair's \u003ci\u003eOil!\u003c\/i\u003e and its film rendering \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Allen Ginsberg's poetic dissections of the nuclear bomb, and Leslie Marmon Silko's imagining of flight in \u003ci\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, this interdisciplinary study culminates with a discussion of Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Sky to Fall\u003c\/i\u003e examines how vertical representation cleaves to, and often transforms the associations of, specific events that are physically and visually disorienting, disquieting, or even traumatic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Mackay is an independent scholar. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702610915635,"sku":"9780814253632","price":71.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VmdyMkVhQ2kzdXo3cjJoM0xRUWllQT09.webp?v=1763312456","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/waiting-for-the-sky-to-fall-the-age-of-verticality-in-american-narrative-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}