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Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campos, Liliane.
Other Authors: Patoine, Pierre-Louis.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1. Introduction
  • Imagination, Science and Power
  • Questions of Scale
  • Aesthetic Trends
  • Chapter Presentation
  • Works Cited
  • I. Invisible Scales: Cells, Microbes and Mycelium
  • 2. Human Environmental Aesthetics: The Molecular Sublime and the Molecular Grotesque
  • The Molecular Sublime
  • Imagining Microbes: From the Molecular Sublime to the Molecular Grotesque
  • Molecular Landscapes: New Ways of Reading the Anthropocene
  • Conclusion: The Big Moment of the Very Small
  • Works Cited
  • 3. Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke's Poetry
  • The Poetry of Stone
  • Playing with Scale
  • Images of Metamorphosis and Development
  • Sounding the Flesh
  • Science in the Landscape
  • Works Cited
  • 4. Mycoaesthetics: Weird Fungi and Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation
  • Weird Ecology, Weird Fiction
  • Wood Wide Web as Ecological Genome
  • The Fungal Kingdom
  • Works Cited
  • II. Neuro-Medical Imaging and Diagnosis
  • 5. To Be or Not to Be a Patient: Challenging Biomedical Categories in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed
  • Challenging Medical Knowledge and Classifications
  • Challenging Neurological Reduction
  • Challenging Social and Literary Categories
  • Works Cited
  • 6. Neurocomics and Neuroimaging: David B.'s Epileptic and Matteo Farinella and Hana Roš's Neurocomic
  • The Tools of Comics
  • The Tools of Neuroimaging
  • A Person Surrounds This Brain
  • Works Cited
  • III. Pandemic Imaginaries
  • 7. The Fiction of the Empty Pandemic City: Race and Diaspora in Ling Ma's Severance
  • Works Cited
  • 8. Dead Gods and Geontopower: An Ecocritical Reading of Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth
  • Works Cited
  • 9. Depopulating the Novel: Post-Catastrophe Fiction, Scale, and the Population Unconscious
  • The Population Unconscious
  • Cosy Catastrophe.
  • Population between Science and Speculation in Science Fiction
  • Survival at Scale in Post-Catastrophe Science Fiction
  • Utopian and Realist Fictions
  • Conclusion: Downscaling Survival
  • Works Cited
  • IV. Ecological Scales
  • 10. The Everyday Pluriverse: Ecosystem Modelling in Reservoir 13
  • Introduction: The Rural Mesocosm
  • Noticing Nonhuman Narratives
  • Visualising Coexistence, Part I
  • Modelling Interspecies Assemblages
  • Visualising Coexistence, Part II
  • Conclusion: Scale and Stoicism in the Everyday Anthropocene
  • Works Cited
  • 11. The Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies of Climate Change Comics
  • Making the Global Threat Personal
  • Anthropomorphic Figures
  • Biography and Autobiography
  • Scientific Distance Versus Intimate Experience
  • Works Cited
  • 12. Displacing the Human: Representing Ecological Crisis on Stage
  • 'It's Actually Not About Us': The Paradox of Human-Centric Ecological Drama
  • Shifting the Boundaries: The Spatial, the Temporal, and the Sensory
  • 'Fragments, Shards, Whispers': Imagining the Impossible Other
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • 13. Staging Larger Scales and Deep Entanglements: The Choice of Immersion in Four Ecological Performances
  • Intermingling Life Forms and Scales
  • Forms of Displacement by Immersion
  • Reading Signs
  • The Place of the Spectator
  • A Diplomatic Theatre
  • Works Cited
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index.

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