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.
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Scale in Literature and Culture
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Scale in Literature and Culture
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Editors and Contributors
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Scale: History and Conception
- Chapter 2 Composing a Cosmic View: Three Alternatives for Thinking Scale in the Anthropocene
- Chapter 3 Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten
- Chapter 4 Anti-Zoom
- Part II Scale in Culture
- Chapter 5 Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong
- Chapter 6 The Stature of Man: Population Bomb on Spaceship Earth
- Chapter 7 Large-Scale Fakes: Living in Architectural Reproductions
- Part III Scale in Literature
- Chapter 8 From the Goddess Ganga to a Teacup: On Amitav Ghosh’s Novel The Hungry Tide
- Chapter 9 World Literature as a Problem of Scale
- Chapter 10 Toward a Theory of the Megatext: Speculative Criticism and Richard Grossman’s “Breeze Avenue Working Paper”
- Chapter 11 Cutting Consciousness Down to Size: David Foster Wallace, Exformation, and the Scale of Encyclopedic Fiction
- Index
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