What Kind of Tears? 9/11 and the Sublime

Vernon Hyde MİNOR

Makale detayları

What Kind of Tears? 9/11 and the Sublime

Yazarlar:

Vernon Hyde MİNOR

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 14, pp.91-96

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2001

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735108

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Nearly everyone in the world knows and has some deeply held, personal response to  what happened in New York City and Washington, D. C., on September 11, 2001. The  extraordinary sight of wide-bodied Boeing airplanes speeding like bullets down Manhattan  Island at near the speed of sound, a mere 500-800 feet above the busy streets, then smashing  into the city’s tallest buildings, eventually reducing them to rubble—these sublime acts of  terror stunned the world. In a sense, we witnessed two types of the sublime as defined by  Kant, the terrifying and the splendid. The terrifying arises from the great power and speed of  these projectiles carrying helpless, unknowing passengers, and the dreadful toll in lost lives;  the splendid results from the magnificence of the airplanes and the remarkable, gargantuan  architecture of the twin towers. Most of us knew the experience not from being there or from  descriptions, but from representation—through the lenses of cameras that captured so much of  what happened that day.

Makale detayları

What Kind of Tears? 9/11 and the Sublime

Yazarlar: Vernon Hyde MİNOR

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 14, pp.91-96

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/2001

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735108

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Vernon Hyde MİNOR

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 14, pp.91-96

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2001

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735108

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606