TY  - GEN
AB  - From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this book, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature as well as film, architecture, and intellectual and cultural history.
AU  - Haacke, Paul,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - PN56.M54
ET  - First edition.
ID  - 962535
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - Modern movement (Architecture)
KW  - Metaphor in literature.
KW  - Metaphor in art.
KW  - Altitudes in literature.
KW  - Altitudes in art.
KW  - Ascension in literature.
KW  - Ascension in art.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851448.001.0001
N2  - From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this book, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature as well as film, architecture, and intellectual and cultural history.
SN  - 9780191886034 
T1  - The vertical imagination and the crisis of transatlantic modernism /
TI  - The vertical imagination and the crisis of transatlantic modernism /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851448.001.0001
ER  -