Scale in Literature and Culture

323 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturtheorie
• ISBN: 9783319877563
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2018
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg