Scale in literature and culture /
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 p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xiv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783319642413 3319642413 |