Scale in Literature and Culture (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319642413 ISBN 13: 9783319642413

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319642413
• ISBN 13: 9783319642413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 337
• Editor: Tavel Clarke Michael, Wittenberg David