The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism by Paul Haacke
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Overview: Rethinks modernist discourse from the rise of the twentieth century to the post-1945 and post-9/11 periods
Shows how technologies, ideologies, and metaphors of verticality became central for re-envisioning the meaning of modernity
Develops a comparative approach to major and lesser-known works of European and American literature as well as intellectual and cultural history, architecture, and film
Engages with inter-disciplinary work in critical theory, urban and environmental studies, film and media studies, transnationalism and empire, and new materialisms and secularisms
Studies a wide range of authors including Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hart Crane, Aimé Césaire, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, and Leslie Marmon Silko
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 The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism, 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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