Scale, Climate Change, and the Pedagogic Potential of Literature
Scaling (in) the Work of Barbara Kingsolver and T.C. Boyle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7936730 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Bartosch (0000-0002-7452-4355, University of Cologne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Library of Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-6700 • E-ISSN: 2056-6700 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/olh.337 |
| OpenAlex | W2894883379 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article discusses recent work in the environmental humanities on the role of scale and what Timothy Clark describes as ‘scale disorder’ when encountering imaginative engagements with the Anthropocene. With readings of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour (2012) and T.C. Boyle’s The Terranauts (2016), it suggests that the ‘scaling of perspectives’ is a viable and productive way of dealing with the representational and interpretive challenges of climate change (and) fiction. Drawing on the notion that literature can be seen as a specific form of cultural ecology, as developed by Hubert Zapf, it presents a concept of transcultural ecology that thrives on the tensions inherent in scale disorder and climate change imaginaries. These findings will be described with regard to the pedagogic potential of reading fiction as an attempt to come to terms with climate change
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Art · Biology · Cartography · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology
Conciliation and Consilience
Reading Seeing
What on World is the Earth
Fictions of the Global
Introduction
Scale Critique for the Anthropocene
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Term Anthropocene
Beauty That Must Die
Family territory' to the 'circumference of the earth
Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change
Introduction
The Anthropocene (and) (in) the Humanities
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |