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Author Schaberg, Christopher

Title Textual Life of Airports : Reading the Culture of Flight
Published London : Continuum International Publishing, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
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
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Subject Airports in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Airports in literature
American literature
Literatur
Flughafen Motiv
Textualität
Lesen
Leser
Flughafen
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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