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

• Author: Campos, Liliane.
• TeilnehmendeR: Patoine, Pierre-Louis.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

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.