Scale in Literature and Culture

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

Autorentext
Michael Tavel Clarke is Associate Professor of English at University of Calgary, Canada.
David Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA.

Inhalt
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.