Titlebook: Scale in Literature and Culture; Michael Tavel Clarke,David Wittenberg Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 role

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Cutting Consciousness Down to Size: David Foster Wallace, Exformation, and the Scale of Encyclopedicsed on his understanding of the cognitive concept of “exformation,” which suggests that human communication depends on the exclusion and discarding of massive amounts of information. Examining the relationship of varied examples of encyclopedic fiction to emotion, as well as conscious and unconsciou

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From the Goddess Ganga to a Teacup: On Amitav Ghosh’s Novel ,ater” in Amitav Ghosh’s novel ., Jue argues for a form of scale theory that accounts for friction between scalar shifts. . suggests a theory of scale that fundamentally concerns the problems of navigation and orientation, accommodating the way different bodies sense and move through the world.

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Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames’s ,ngs affect human lifeworlds. . invites both a critical reading, which suggests that our relation to entities such as atoms is inevitably anthropomorphic, and a speculative reading, which suggests that modern phenomenological worlds are produced, at least in part, by the traces of objects from nonhuman scale domains.

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Cutting Consciousness Down to Size: David Foster Wallace, Exformation, and the Scale of Encyclopedics perception, this chapter interprets issues of the types and scales of mental stimulus in . and .. The chapter concludes that in the unfinished . Wallace builds a new form of novelistic encyclopedism that attempts to register the huge amount of psychic data available in a single second’s perception.

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Introduction,le in a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, architecture and urban planning, human geography, film studies, and other fields, and conclude with brief summaries of the collection’s contents.

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Composing a Cosmic View: Three Alternatives for Thinking Scale in the Anthropocenethics, and politics of the human. Taken as a whole, they remind us of the compositional nature of scale and offer forking paths forward toward an Anthropocene of difference rather than of human mastery.

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