Scale in Literature and Culture

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<div><p>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.</p></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

Autorenportrait

<div>Michael Tavel Clarke is Associate Professor of English at University of Calgary, Canada. </div><div><br/></div><div>David Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

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