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UNINA9910255087603321 |
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Titolo |
Scale in Literature and Culture / / edited by Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIV, 323 p. 23 illus.) |
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Collana |
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Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, , 2634-5188 |
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Soggetti |
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Literature - Philosophy |
Critical theory |
Comparative literature |
Motion pictures |
Literary Theory |
Critical Theory |
Comparative Literature |
Film Theory |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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