Gigantic Realism
The Rise of the Novel and the Comedy of Scale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2225326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Mcgurl (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 403-430 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/689661 |
| OpenAlex | W2561050866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
From this perspective, a text like Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) might begin to look somewhat nostalgic, as though the only real problem is to comprehend the body of nature in its guise of extensional largeness. In the chapter called “Cetology” whales are poetically-scientifically categorized according to size, and each size-category analogically tied to a physical form of the book—folio, octavo, duodecimo. Conceptually, the book contains the whale. Later, meditating further on the size of the whale, the narrator Ishmael gloats that it “affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate
Aesthetics · Art · Cartography · Comedy · Epistemology · Extensional definition · Folio · Geography · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Realism · Scale (ratio · Theme (computing · Visual arts · Whale · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |