Edited book
Scale in literature and culture
Geocriticism and spatial literary studies, Palgrave Macmillan
2017
Abstract
This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Scale in literature and culture
- Contributors
- Michael Tavel Clarke (Editor)David Wittenberg (Editor) - University of Iowa, Cinematic Arts
- Resource Type
- Edited book
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; Cham, Switzerland
- Series
- Geocriticism and spatial literary studies
- ISBN
- 9783319642413; 3319642413
- Number of pages
- xiv, 323 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2017
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; English
- Record Identifier
- 9983994796702771
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