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Titolo: | Scale in Literature and Culture / / edited by Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg |
Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XIV, 323 p. 23 illus.) |
Disciplina: | 801 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature - Philosophy |
Critical theory | |
Comparative literature | |
Motion pictures | |
Literary Theory | |
Critical Theory | |
Comparative Literature | |
Film Theory | |
Persona (resp. second.): | Tavel ClarkeMichael |
WittenbergDavid | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Scale in Literature and Culture |
ISBN: | 3-319-64242-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910255087603321 |
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