Detailansicht
Scale in Literature and Culture
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
ISBN/EAN: 9783319642413
Umbreit-Nr.: 2539696
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 323 S., 23 s/w Illustr., 323 p. 23 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 20.12.2017
Auflage: 1/2018
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- Michael Tavel Clarke is Associate Professor of English at University of Calgary, Canada. David Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA.