Airportness

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501325717

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Airportness by Christopher Schaberg Pdf

Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between, Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of commercial aviation to discover "the nature of flight.†? For Schaberg this means hearing planes in the sky, recognizing airline symbols in unlikely places, and navigating the various zones of transit from sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. It is an ongoing, swarming ecosystem that unfolds each day as we fly, get stranded, and arrive at our destinations. Airportness turns out to be more than just architecture and design elements-rather, it is all the rumble and buzz of flight, the tedium of travel as well as the feelings of uplift.

Author : Teresa A. Toulouse,Barbara C. Ewell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781496817037

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Sweet Spots by Teresa A. Toulouse,Barbara C. Ewell Pdf

Contributions by Carrie Bernhard, Scott Bernhard, Marilyn R. Brown, Richard Campanella, John P. Clark, Joel Dinerstein, Pableaux Johnson, John P. Klingman, Angel Adams Parham, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Ruth Salvaggio, Christopher Schaberg, Teresa A. Toulouse, and Beth Willinger Much has been written about New Orleans's distinctive architecture and urban fabric, as well as the city's art, literature, and music. There is, however, little discussion connecting these features. Sweet Spots--a title drawn from jazz musicians' name for the space "in-between" performers and dancers where music best resonates--provides multiple connections between the city's spaces, its complex culture, and its future. Drawing on the late Tulane architect Malcolm Heard's ideas about "interstitial" spaces, this collection examines how a variety of literal and represented "in-between" spaces in New Orleans have addressed race, class, gender, community, and environment. As scholars of architecture, art, African American studies, English, history, jazz, philosophy, and sociology, the authors incorporate materials from architectural history and practice, literary texts, paintings, drawings, music, dance, and even statistical analyses. Interstitial space refers not only to functional elements inside and outside of many New Orleans houses--high ceilings, hidden staircases, galleries, and courtyards--but also to compelling spatial relations between the city's houses, streets, and neighborhoods. Rich with visual materials, Sweet Spots reveals the ways that diverse New Orleans spaces take on meanings and accrete stories that promote certain consequences both for those who live in them and for those who read such stories. The volume evokes, preserves, criticizes, and amends understanding of a powerful and often-missed feature of New Orleans's elusive reality.

Author : Michael Kane
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030374495

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Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory by Michael Kane Pdf

Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory seeks to place the contemporary transformation of notions of space and time, often attributed to the technologies we use, in the context of the ongoing transformations of modernity. Bringing together examples of modern and contemporary fiction (from Defoe to DeLillo, Frankenstein to Finnegans Wake) and theoretical discussions of the modern and the post-modern, the author explores the legacy of modern transformations of space and time under five headings: “The Space of Nature”; “The Space of the City”; “Postmodern or Most Modern Time”; “The Time and Space of the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction”; and “Travel: from Modernity to...?”. These five essays re-examine the meanings of modernity and its aftermath in relation to the spaces and times of the natural, the urban and the media environment.

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441175212

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The Textual Life of Airports by Christopher Schaberg Pdf

From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. >

Author : Jennie Small
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845419042

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The Passenger Experience of Air Travel by Jennie Small Pdf

Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. Concerned with the politics and social justice issues of travel and mobility, it examines the passenger and their experience of the airport, fellow passengers, flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, and response to the issue of air travel sustainability. It explores the diverse experiences of those with a disability or fear of flying. The volume brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour where, traditionally, the focus has been the destination experience. The book will be of interest to scholars from a range of social science disciplines and fields of study including tourism studies, mobility studies, cultural studies, and disability studies.

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351853

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Searching for the Anthropocene by Christopher Schaberg Pdf

Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author's home in rural northern Michigan and zooming out to perceive a dizzying global matrix, Christopher Schaberg invites readers on an atmospheric, impressionistic adventure with the environmental humanities. Searching for the Anthropocene blends personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought to ponder human-driven catastrophe on a planetary scale. This book is not about defining or settling the Anthropocene, but rather about articulating what it's like to live in the Anthropocene, to live with a sense of its nagging presence--even as the stakes grow higher with each passing year, each oncoming storm.

Author : Erica Durante
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030526511

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Air Travel Fiction and Film by Erica Durante Pdf

Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of a wide range of international cultural productions, and elucidates the paradigms and narratives that constitute our current imaginary of air mobility. Erica Durante advances the hypothesis that fiction and film have converted the Airworld—the world of airplanes and airport infrastructures—into a pivotal anthropological place that is endowed with social significance and identity, suggesting that the assimilation of the sky into our cultural imaginary and lifestyle has metamorphosed human society into “Cloud People.” In its examination of the representations of air travel as an epicenter of today’s world, the book not only illustrates a novel perspective on contemporary fiction, but fills an important gap in the study of globalization within literary and film studies.

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476684352

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Journeys into Terror by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives.This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the "geographies of evil" and how our notions of "terrible places" and their inhabitants change over time. The volume's five thematic sections offer new insights into how power, privilege, uncanny landscapes, misbegotten quests, hellish commutes and deadly vacations can turn our travels into terror.

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765101476

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Adventure by Christopher Schaberg Pdf

What is the meaning of “adventure” as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes? What stories are humans telling about wilderness, remote destinations, and the most difficult thoughts thinkable? Adventure is a pinball assortment of unexpected encounters. Each chapter entertains a specific project, fantasy, or activity that dabbles with adventure – and runs into limits. Subjects range from Mars exploration, commercial space tourism, and adventure consumerism, to the day-to-day experiences of living in a world increasingly impacted by climate change and environmental disasters. Taking a wide-angle view – at times personal, at others theoretical – Schaberg explores our ideas about adventure and their narrative, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Kansas
ISBN : UCSD:31822020625570

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The National Gazetteer of the United States of America--Kansas, 1984 by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951000695472N

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Geological Survey Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781501364600

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Pedagogy of the Depressed by Christopher Schaberg Pdf

This book is one English professor's assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade.

Author : Collections
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442267664

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Collections Vol 4 N3 by Collections Pdf

"Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals" is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of handling, preserving, researching, and organizing collections. Curators, archivists, collections managers, preparators, registrars, educators, students, and others contribute.

Author : Laurie Bauer,Rochelle Lieber,Ingo Plag
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191067648

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The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology by Laurie Bauer,Rochelle Lieber,Ingo Plag Pdf

This volume presents a data-rich description of English inflection and word-formation. Based on large corpora including the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British national Corpus, it is the first comprehensive treatment of contemporary English morphology that includes both inflection and word-formation. It covers not only well-studied topics such as compounding, conversion, and the inflection and derivation of nouns and verbs, but also areas that have received less scholarly attention, such as the formation of adjectives, locatives, negatives, evaluatives, neoclassical compounds and blends, among many other topics. Equal wieght is given to form and meaning. The volume also contains sections devoted to phonological and orthographics aspects of morphology and to combinatorial and paradigmatic properties of English morphology. It ends with a series of chapters that assess the implications of English morphology for morphological theory, discussing topics such as stratification, blocking and comprtition, the analysis of conversion, and the relationship between inflection and derivation. Winner of the 2015 Bloomfield Book Award and written by three outstanding scholars, this outstanding book will interest all scholars and students of English and of linguistic morphology more generally.

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501334313

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The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth by Christopher Schaberg Pdf

What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news? If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic texts with age-old questions, neither is it a rejection of close reading or critical inquiry. Through the lived experience of a humanities professor in a rapidly changing world, this book explores how the careful study of literature and culture may be precisely what we need to navigate our dizzying epoch of post-truth politics and ecological urgency.