Scale Crisis And The Modern Novel
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Scale Crisis And The Modern Novel
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Author : Aaron Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-31
Scale Crisis And The Modern Novel written by Aaron Rosenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
An examination of how four industrial-age novelists confronted crises at new and unprecedented temporal, ecological and geographical scales.
Scale Crisis And The Modern Novel
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Author : Aaron Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-09
Scale Crisis And The Modern Novel written by Aaron Rosenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Biopolitics And Animal Species In Nineteenth Century Literature And Science
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Author : Matthew Rowlinson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02
Biopolitics And Animal Species In Nineteenth Century Literature And Science written by Matthew Rowlinson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Human Scale Revisited
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Author : Kirkpatrick Sale
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date : 2017
Human Scale Revisited written by Kirkpatrick Sale and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with ARCHITECTURE categories.
Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of bigness grown out of control--and what can be done about it. The result is a keenly updated, carefully argued case for bringing human endeavors back to scales we can comprehend and manage--whether in our built environments, our politics, our business endeavors, our energy plans, or our mobility. Sale walks readers back through history to a time when buildings were scaled to the human figure (as was the Parthenon), democracies were scaled to the societies they served, and enterprise was scaled to communities. Against that backdrop, he dissects the bigger-is-better paradigm that has defined modern times and brought civilization to a crisis point. Says Sale, retreating from our calamity will take rebalancing our relationship to the environment; adopting more human-scale technologies; right-sizing our buildings, communities, and cities; and bringing our critical services--from energy, food, and garbage collection to transportation, health, and education--back to human scale as well. Like Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher, Human Scale has long been a classic of modern decentralist thought and communitarian values--a key tool in the kit of those trying to localize, create meaningful governance in bioregions, or rethink our reverence of and dependence on growth, financially and otherwise. Rewritten to interpret the past few decades, Human Scale offers compelling new insights on how to turn away from the giantism that has caused escalating ecological distress and inequality, dysfunctional governments, and unending warfare and shines a light on many possible pathways that could allow us to scale down, survive, and thrive.
Panic
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Author : David Andrew Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006
Panic written by David Andrew Zimmerman and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States. Fiction writers published scores of novels that explored this new cultural phenomenon. In Panic, David A. Zimmerman studies how American novelists and their readers imagined--and in one case, incited--market crashes and financial panics.Panic examines how Americans' understandings of and attitudes toward securities markets, popular investment, and financial catastrophe were entangled with their conceptions of gender, class, crowds, and history. Blending literary, historical, and cultural analysis, Zimmerman investigates how writers turned to fledgling research in mob psychology, psychic investigations, and conspiracy discourse to understand how mass acts of reading and popular participation in the corporate transformation of the American economy could trigger financial disaster and cultural chaos. In addition, Zimmerman shows how writers, by experimenting with sensationalism, sympathy, the sublime, melodrama, and naturalism, explored the limits of fiction's aesthetic, economic, and ethical capacities in their portrayals of markets in crisis. With readings of canonical as well as lesser-known novelists, Zimmerman provides an original and wide-ranging analysis of the relation between fiction and financial modernity.
The Crisis Of The Modern World
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Author : Rene?. Guenon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Crisis Of The Modern World written by Rene?. Guenon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Civilization, Modern categories.
The Saturday Review Of Politics Literature Science And Art
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The Saturday Review Of Politics Literature Science And Art written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Art categories.
Finance Fictions
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Author : Arne De Boever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Finance Fictions written by Arne De Boever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.
Human Scale
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Author : Kirkpatrick Sale
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR
Release Date : 1980
Human Scale written by Kirkpatrick Sale and has been published by Penguin Adult HC/TR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Business & Economics categories.
"Big government, big business, big everything - how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of giantism grown out of control - and what can be done about it. Kirkpatrick Sale examines a nation in the grips of growthmania and presents the ways to shape a more efficient and livable society built to the human scale."--Cover.
Salvation City
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Author : Sigrid Nunez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-09-16
Salvation City written by Sigrid Nunez and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-16 with Fiction categories.
“A NOVEL FOR LIFE AFTER THE PANDEMIC…Scratches a particular imaginative itch that we are all experiencing at the precipice of a new era." -- The New Yorker From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend comes a moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a pandemic virus as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny. His family's sole survivor after a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of people worldwide, Cole Vining is lucky to have found refuge with the evangelical Pastor Wyatt and his wife in a small town in southern Indiana. As the world outside has grown increasingly anarchic, Salvation City has been spared much of the devastation, and its residents have renewed their preparations for the Rapture. Grateful for the shelter and love of his foster family (and relieved to have been saved from the horrid, overrun orphanages that have sprung up around the country), Cole begins to form relationships within the larger community. But despite his affection for this place, he struggles with memories of the very different world in which he was reared. Is there room to love both Wyatt and his parents? Are they still his parents if they are no longer there? As others around him grow increasingly fixated on the hope of salvation and the new life to come through the imminent Rapture, Cole begins to conceive of a different future for himself, one in which his own dreams of heroism seem within reach. Written in Sigrid Nunez's deceptively simple style, Salvation City is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness, weaving the deeply affecting story of a young boy's transformation with a profound meditation on the meaning of belief and heroism.