War and Peace in the Anthropocene. The Scale of Realism in Richard Powers’s <i>The Overstory</i>
While Amitav Ghosh and others have argued that the conventions of the realist novel inhibit its capacity to represent the climate crisis, this essay argues that a Lukácsian approach to realism attentive to its historicizing ambitions can help us to better theorize how realism might confront the scal...
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Bergische Universität Wuppertal
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Diegesis: Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung |
| Online Access: | https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/article/view/386 |