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)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2020
Series:Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS) 4
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