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Scale in Literature and Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-12-20
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Antal sidor323
Upplaga17001
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319642413

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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.