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Scale in Literature and Culture
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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106,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 04.12.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319642420 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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<div><p>This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.</p></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
<div>1 Introduction.- 2 Composing a Cosmic View: Three Alternatives for Thinking Scale in the Anthropocene.- 3 Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames’s <i>Powers of Ten.</i>- 4 Anti-Zoom.- 5 Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in <i>King Kong</i>.- 6 The Stature of Man: Population Bomb on Spaceship Earth.- 7 Large-Scale Fakes: Living in Architectural Reproductions.- 8 From the Goddess Ganga to a Teacup: On Amitav Ghosh’s Novel <i>The Hungry Tide.</i>- 9 World Literature as a Problem of Scale.- 10 Toward a Theory of the Megatext: Speculative Criticism and Richard Grossman’s ‘<i>Breeze Avenue</i> Working Paper’.- 11 Cutting Consciousness Down to Size: David Foster Wallace, Exformation, and the Scale of Encyclopedic Fiction.</div>
<div>Michael Tavel Clarke is Associate Professor of English at University of Calgary, Canada. </div><div><br/></div><div>David Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
<div><p>This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.</p></div>
Emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to geocriticism, examining critical theory, film, and novels Establishes key benchmarks for discussion on scale in literature Illuminates the historical, methodological, and social/political significance of scale Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
<div><div>Emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to geocriticism, examining critical theory, film, and novels</div><div><br/></div><div>Establishes key benchmarks for discussion on scale in literature</div><div> </div><div>Illuminates the historical, methodological, and social/political significance of scale</div></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
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