The vertical imagination and the crisis of transatlantic modernism / Paul Haacke.

First edition.

9780191886034 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

English

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

PN56.M54

809.9112

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.

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.

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