Scale in literature and culture / Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg, editors.
Clarke, Michael Tavel, editor.; Wittenberg, David, editor.
2017
PN98.S33 S33 2017
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Title Scale in literature and culture / Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg, editors.
ISBN 9783319642420 (electronic book)
3319642421 (electronic book)
9783319642413
3319642413
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number PN98.S33 S33 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 801/.95
Summary 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.
Note 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.
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Added Author Clarke, Michael Tavel, editor.
Wittenberg, David, editor.
Series Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
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1. Introduction / David Wittenberg
pt. I Scale: History and Conception
2. Composing a Cosmic View: Three Alternatives for Thinking Scale in the Anthropocene / Zach Horton
3. Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten / Derek Woods
4. Anti-Zoom / Bruno Latour
pt. II Scale in Culture
5. Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong / Mark McGurl
6. The Stature of Man: Population Bomb on Spaceship Earth / Joan Lubin
7. Large-Scale Fakes: Living in Architectural Reproductions / Aikaterini Antonopoulou
pt. III Scale in Literature
8. From the Goddess Ganga to a Teacup: On Amitav Ghosh's Novel The Hungry Tide / Melody Jue
9. World Literature as a Problem of Scale / Oded Nir
10. Toward a Theory of the Megatext: Speculative Criticism and Richard Grossman's "Breeze Avenue Working Paper" / Bradley J. Fest
11. Cutting Consciousness Down to Size: David Foster Wallace, Exformation, and the Scale of Encyclopedic Fiction / Jeffrey Severs.

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