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Scale in literature and culture

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Scale in literature and culture/ edited by Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg.
other author:	Clarke, Michael Tavel.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xiv, 323 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Criticism. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64242-0
ISBN:	9783319642420

Scale in literature and culture
Scale in literature and culture[electronic resource] /edited by Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xiv, 323 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Geocriticism and spatial literary studies. - Geocriticism and spatial literary studies..

1 Introduction -- 2 Composing a Cosmic View: Three Alternatives for Thinking Scale in the Anthropocene -- 3 Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten -- 4 Anti-Zoom -- 5 Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong -- 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 The Hungry Tide -- 9 World Literature as a Problem of Scale -- 10 Toward a Theory of the Megatext: Speculative Criticism and Richard Grossman's 'Breeze Avenue Working Paper' -- 11 Cutting Consciousness Down to Size: David Foster Wallace, Exformation, and the Scale of Encyclopedic Fiction.

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.

ISBN: 9783319642420

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-64242-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

555664
Criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN98.S33 / S33 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 801.95

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