| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Reprint acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 What Is Airport Reading?; Chapter 2 Work in the Culture of Flight; Chapter 3 Detecting the Uncertain Subject of Airport Mysteries; Chapter 4 9/11: Points of Departure; Chapter 5 The Airport Screening Complex; Chapter 6 Airport Studies; Chapter 7 Ecology in Waiting; Chapter 8 Bird Citing; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The Textual Life of Airports shows how airports demand to be read. Working at the intersection of literary studies and cultural theory, Schaberg tracks airport stories in American literature, as well as in a range of visual texts (film, airport art, magazine illustrations). Throughout, close readings of literary passages highlight narrative tropes of airports in texts; these literary readings also function as a methodological lens for how to interpret airports as texts. The Textual Life of Airports accounts for how airports appear in literature throughout the twentieth-century, while also exam. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Airports in literature.
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Airports in literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schaberg, Christopher. Textual Life of Airports : Reading the Culture of Flight. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2011 9781441175212 |
| ISBN |
9781441135278 (electronic book) |
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1441135278 (electronic book) |
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9781441175212 (hardback) |
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1441175210 (hardback) |
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