“the terror of sheer bigness”: microplotting immensity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus (1901)
This article traces the stylistic consequences of the attempt to map seemingly infinitely expanding networks of trade and value in Frank Norris’s The Octopus (1901). It focuses on the rehearsal at the level of the sentence of characters’ grappling with the ‘terror of sheer bigness’, and the complex...
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Penn State University Press
2021
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