Scale in Literature and Culture
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783319642413 (ISBN)
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.
Michael Tavel Clarke is Associate Professor of English at University of Calgary, Canada. David Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 323 p. 23 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 558 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | 1. FC Kaiserslautern • 1. FC Kaiserslautern; Kalender • Biography, Literature & Literary studies • Biography, Literature & Literary studies • Chinese vs. Western attitudes towards architectura • Chinese vs. Western attitudes towards architectural reproduction • Cognitive Mapping • Comparative Literature • Critical theory • Film history, theory & criticism • Film history, theory & criticism • Film theory • Fredric Jameson • friction between scalar shifts • global scale of social relations • History of philosophy, philosophical traditions • King Kong as corporate allegory • Literary Theory • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Literature: history & criticism • Literature: history & criticism • Olafur Eliasson • Powers of Ten and epistemology • Richard Grossman's Breeze Avenue • Richard Mathesons The Shrinking Man • role of scale in epistemology • scale and hierarchy • Scales of relation in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Ti • Scales of relation in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide • scale variance • size and scale in the Antropocene • skyscrapers and anti-capitalism • The Anthropocene and Paracelsus • The Anthropocene and Walt Whitman • world literature and global scale |
| ISBN-13 | 9783319642413 / 9783319642413 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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