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The Public and the V2 |
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| Authors: | Bruce Robbins |
| Abstract: | The London Blitz has come to epitomise the golden age of urban togetherness and bonhomie when the public was bound by a common enemy threat. Through his reading of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, literary critic Bruce Robbins questions the archetypal view of the Second World War as a watershed after which the ideal intact city and its community were ultimately destroyed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | ‘the implosion of the urban core’ Albert Pope ‘celebrated architects and the precise trajectory of the V2 rocket’ Thomas Pynchon's vision Gravity's Rainbow ‘scattered’ ‘the Zone’ ‘the space of communication’ Latour and Wiebel's Making Things Public. |