Overview
- Emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to geocriticism, examining critical theory, film, and novels
- Establishes key benchmarks for discussion on scale in literature
- Illuminates the historical, methodological, and social/political significance of scale
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Scale: History and Conception
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Front Matter
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Scale in Literature
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- role of scale in epistemology
- size and scale in the Antropocene
- The Anthropocene and Paracelsus
- The Anthropocene and Walt Whitman
- Powers of Ten and epistemology
- scale variance
- Olafur Eliasson
- scale and hierarchy
- skyscrapers and anti-capitalism
- King Kong as corporate allegory
- Richard Mathesons The Shrinking Man
- Chinese vs. Western attitudes towards architectural reproduction
- friction between scalar shifts
- Fredric Jameson
- Cognitive mapping
- global scale of social relations
- world literature and global scale
- Richard Grossman's Breeze Avenue
- Scales of relation in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scale in Literature and Culture
Editors: Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64242-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64241-3Published: 20 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87756-3Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64242-0Published: 04 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 323
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Film Theory