Journal Article10.1017/s1060150323000141
Life-Size
Dehn Gilmore
TL;DR: Life-size forms are a technology for collapsing time and space. Literary authors have been inspired by the proliferation of life-size forms in culture.
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Abstract: This entry posits the life-size as a form of “technology” for collapsing time and space and closes by suggesting some ways in which literary authors were inspired by the proliferation of life-size forms in culture.
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Pigmies and Brobdignagians: Arts Writing, Dickensian Character, and the Vanishing Victorian Life-Size
TL;DR: The authors argue that Charles Dickens's "larger than life" characters were critically shaped by the Victorians' increasing doubts about the life-size as a visual standard in painting and sculpture.
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