The Flying Machine and Modern LiteratureIndiana University Press, 22 лист. 1986 р. - 253 стор. "This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology." —Herbert Sussman |
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... plane's crew would escape death from anti - aircraft fire . The success of a bombing raid , for example , depended upon cutting the motor at just the right time so that anti - aircraft crews would not hear the plane overhead . If the ...
... plane's crew would escape death from anti - aircraft fire . The success of a bombing raid , for example , depended upon cutting the motor at just the right time so that anti - aircraft crews would not hear the plane overhead . If the ...
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... plane ? " ( p . 30 ) sounds impious , but is a sincere attempt to fuse into a complex figure the redemptive impulse in Christian and modern societies . The last , often - quoted verse paragraph of the poem attempts to resolve the ...
... plane ? " ( p . 30 ) sounds impious , but is a sincere attempt to fuse into a complex figure the redemptive impulse in Christian and modern societies . The last , often - quoted verse paragraph of the poem attempts to resolve the ...
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... plane of their own , The Red Eagle II , as a reward and sign of confidence in their future as pilots . An English work of 1935 composed for similarly didactic purposes is C. Day Lewis's " A Time to Dance . " Its first part is a long ...
... plane of their own , The Red Eagle II , as a reward and sign of confidence in their future as pilots . An English work of 1935 composed for similarly didactic purposes is C. Day Lewis's " A Time to Dance . " Its first part is a long ...
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