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Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance / / Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine
| Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance / / Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine |
| Autore | Campos Liliane |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, England : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (420 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791 |
| Soggetto topico | Performing arts |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Imagination, Science and Power -- Questions of Scale -- Aesthetic Trends -- Chapter Presentation -- Works Cited -- I. Invisible Scales: Cells, Microbes and Mycelium -- 2. Human Environmental Aesthetics: The Molecular Sublime and the Molecular Grotesque -- The Molecular Sublime -- Imagining Microbes: From the Molecular Sublime to the Molecular Grotesque -- Molecular Landscapes: New Ways of Reading the Anthropocene -- Conclusion: The Big Moment of the Very Small -- Works Cited 3. Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke's Poetry -- The Poetry of Stone -- Playing with Scale -- Images of Metamorphosis and Development -- Sounding the Flesh -- Science in the Landscape -- Works Cited -- 4. Mycoaesthetics: Weird Fungi and Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation -- Weird Ecology, Weird Fiction -- Wood Wide Web as Ecological Genome -- The Fungal Kingdom -- Works Cited -- II. Neuro-Medical Imaging and Diagnosis -- 5. To Be or Not to Be a Patient: Challenging Biomedical Categories in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed -- Challenging Medical Knowledge and Classifications Challenging Neurological Reduction -- Challenging Social and Literary Categories -- Works Cited -- 6. Neurocomics and Neuroimaging: David B.'s Epileptic and Matteo Farinella and Hana Roš's Neurocomic -- The Tools of Comics -- The Tools of Neuroimaging -- A Person Surrounds This Brain -- Works Cited -- III. Pandemic Imaginaries -- 7. The Fiction of the Empty Pandemic City: Race and Diaspora in Ling Ma's Severance -- Works Cited -- 8. Dead Gods and Geontopower: An Ecocritical Reading of Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth -- Works Cited 9. Depopulating the Novel: Post-Catastrophe Fiction, Scale, and the Population Unconscious -- The Population Unconscious -- Cosy Catastrophe -- Population between Science and Speculation in Science Fiction -- Survival at Scale in Post-Catastrophe Science Fiction -- Utopian and Realist Fictions -- Conclusion: Downscaling Survival -- Works Cited -- IV. Ecological Scales -- 10. The Everyday Pluriverse: Ecosystem Modelling in Reservoir 13 -- Introduction: The Rural Mesocosm -- Noticing Nonhuman Narratives -- Visualising Coexistence, Part I Modelling Interspecies Assemblages Visualising Coexistence, Part II -- Conclusion: Scale and Stoicism in the Everyday Anthropocene -- Works Cited -- 11. The Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies of Climate Change Comics -- Making the Global Threat Personal -- Anthropomorphic Figures -- Biography and Autobiography Scientific Distance Versus Intimate Experience -- Works Cited -- 12. Displacing the Human: Representing Ecological Crisis on Stage -- 'It's Actually Not About Us': The Paradox of Human-Centric Ecological Drama -- Shifting the Boundaries: The Spatial, the Temporal, and the Sensory. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Life, Re-Scaled |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774823303321 |
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| Cambridge, England : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Life, re-scaled : the biological imagination in twenty-first-century literature and performance / / edited by Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine
| Life, re-scaled : the biological imagination in twenty-first-century literature and performance / / edited by Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.9336 |
| Soggetto topico |
Life sciences in literature
Science in literature |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Imagination, Science and Power -- Questions of Scale -- Aesthetic Trends -- Chapter Presentation -- Works Cited -- I. Invisible Scales: Cells, Microbes and Mycelium -- 2. Human Environmental Aesthetics: The Molecular Sublime and the Molecular Grotesque -- The Molecular Sublime -- Imagining Microbes: From the Molecular Sublime to the Molecular Grotesque -- Molecular Landscapes: New Ways of Reading the Anthropocene -- Conclusion: The Big Moment of the Very Small -- Works Cited 3. Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke's Poetry -- The Poetry of Stone -- Playing with Scale -- Images of Metamorphosis and Development -- Sounding the Flesh -- Science in the Landscape -- Works Cited -- 4. Mycoaesthetics: Weird Fungi and Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation -- Weird Ecology, Weird Fiction -- Wood Wide Web as Ecological Genome -- The Fungal Kingdom -- Works Cited -- II. Neuro-Medical Imaging and Diagnosis -- 5. To Be or Not to Be a Patient: Challenging Biomedical Categories in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed -- Challenging Medical Knowledge and Classifications Challenging Neurological Reduction -- Challenging Social and Literary Categories -- Works Cited -- 6. Neurocomics and Neuroimaging: David B.'s Epileptic and Matteo Farinella and Hana Roš's Neurocomic -- The Tools of Comics -- The Tools of Neuroimaging -- A Person Surrounds This Brain -- Works Cited -- III. Pandemic Imaginaries -- 7. The Fiction of the Empty Pandemic City: Race and Diaspora in Ling Ma's Severance -- Works Cited -- 8. Dead Gods and Geontopower: An Ecocritical Reading of Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth -- Works Cited 9. Depopulating the Novel: Post-Catastrophe Fiction, Scale, and the Population Unconscious -- The Population Unconscious -- Cosy Catastrophe -- Population between Science and Speculation in Science Fiction -- Survival at Scale in Post-Catastrophe Science Fiction -- Utopian and Realist Fictions -- Conclusion: Downscaling Survival -- Works Cited -- IV. Ecological Scales -- 10. The Everyday Pluriverse: Ecosystem Modelling in Reservoir 13 -- Introduction: The Rural Mesocosm -- Noticing Nonhuman Narratives -- Visualising Coexistence, Part I Modelling Interspecies Assemblages Visualising Coexistence, Part II -- Conclusion: Scale and Stoicism in the Everyday Anthropocene -- Works Cited -- 11. The Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies of Climate Change Comics -- Making the Global Threat Personal -- Anthropomorphic Figures -- Biography and Autobiography Scientific Distance Versus Intimate Experience -- Works Cited -- 12. Displacing the Human: Representing Ecological Crisis on Stage -- 'It's Actually Not About Us': The Paradox of Human-Centric Ecological Drama -- Shifting the Boundaries: The Spatial, the Temporal, and the Sensory. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Life, Re-Scaled |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910617307803321 |
| Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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