03497nam 22005895 450 991025508760332120230810192235.03-319-64242-110.1007/978-3-319-64242-0(CKB)4100000001382219(DE-He213)978-3-319-64242-0(MiAaPQ)EBC5183815(EXLCZ)99410000000138221920171206d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierScale in Literature and Culture /edited by Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XIV, 323 p. 23 illus.)Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,2634-51883-319-64241-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,2634-5188LiteraturePhilosophyCritical theoryComparative literatureMotion picturesLiterary TheoryCritical TheoryComparative LiteratureFilm TheoryLiteraturePhilosophy.Critical theory.Comparative literature.Motion pictures.Literary Theory.Critical Theory.Comparative Literature.Film Theory.801Tavel Clarke Michaeledthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtWittenberg Davidedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910255087603321Scale in Literature and Culture2494595UNINA