Scale in Literature and Culture

1. Introduction
Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg

Part I. Scale: History and Conception

2. Composing a Cosmic View: Three Alternatives for Thinking Scale in the Anthropocene
Zach Horton

3. Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten

Derek Woods

4. Anti-Zoom
Bruno Latour

Part II. Scale in Culture

5. Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong

Mark McGurl

6. The Stature of Man: Population Bomb on Spaceship Earth
Joan Lubin

7. Large-Scale Fakes: Living in Architectural Reproductions
Aikaterini Antonopoulou

Part III. Scale in Literature

8. From the Goddess Ganga to a Teacup: On Amitav Ghosh’s Novel The Hungry Tide

Melody Jue

9. World Literature as a Problem of Scale
Oded Nir

10. Toward a Theory of the Megatext: Speculative Criticism and Richard Grossman’s “Breeze Avenue Working Paper”
Bradley J. Fest

11. Cutting Consciousness Down to Size: David Foster Wallace, Exformation, and the Scale of Encyclopedic Fiction
Jeffrey Severs

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Film Theory