{"product_id":"the-textual-life-of-airports-christopher-schaberg-9781441189684","title":"The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight","description":"This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not always fit into standard ideas of these in-between places. Tales of near disaster, endless delays, dramatic weather shifts, a lost bag that suddenly appears-such stories are familiar accounts of a place that seems to thrive on and recycle its own mythologies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Textual Life of Airports\u003c\/i\u003e 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). It accounts for how airports appear in literature throughout the twentieth-century, while also examining the influx of airport figures in markedly post-9\/11 literature and culture. These literary and cultural representations work together to form \"the textual life of airports.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Schaberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441189688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441189684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2016 pg. 62","brand":"Christopher Schaberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136443695359,"sku":"9781441189684","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f280386b-2d56-441b-851e-0338b7d30048.jpg?v=1755023359","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-textual-life-of-airports-christopher-schaberg-9781441189684","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}