Skyscraping Frontiers : The Skyscraper as Heterotopia in the 20th-Century American Novel and Film
As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readi...
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Main Author: | Klein, Sascha (auth) |
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Format: | Book Chapter |
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
2020
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