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Cover: 9781847064936 | At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean | Steve Mentz | Taschenbuch
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At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean
Taschenbuch von Steve Mentz
Sprache: Englisch

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We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There's more real salt in the plays than we might expect. Shakespeare's dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient world and the immense blue vistas that early modern mariners navigated. Throughout his career, from the opening shipwrecks of The Comedy of Errors through The Tempest, Shakespeare's plays figure the ocean as shocking physical reality and mind-twisting symbol of change and instability. To fathom Shakespeare's ocean - to go down to its bottom - this book's chapters focus on different things that humans do with and in and near the sea: fathoming, keeping watch, swimming, beachcombing, fishing, and drowning.
Mentz also sets Shakespeare's sea-poetry against modern literary sea-scapes, including the vast Pacific of Moby-Dick, the rocky coast of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems, and the lyrical waters of the postcolonial Caribbean. Uncovering the depths of Shakespeare's maritime world, this book draws out the centrality of the sea in our literary culture.
We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There's more real salt in the plays than we might expect. Shakespeare's dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient world and the immense blue vistas that early modern mariners navigated. Throughout his career, from the opening shipwrecks of The Comedy of Errors through The Tempest, Shakespeare's plays figure the ocean as shocking physical reality and mind-twisting symbol of change and instability. To fathom Shakespeare's ocean - to go down to its bottom - this book's chapters focus on different things that humans do with and in and near the sea: fathoming, keeping watch, swimming, beachcombing, fishing, and drowning.
Mentz also sets Shakespeare's sea-poetry against modern literary sea-scapes, including the vast Pacific of Moby-Dick, the rocky coast of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems, and the lyrical waters of the postcolonial Caribbean. Uncovering the depths of Shakespeare's maritime world, this book draws out the centrality of the sea in our literary culture.
Über den Autor
Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John's University, USA. He is the author of seven books, most recently Sailing without Ahab (2024) and An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023), as well as multiple edited volumes, chapters, and journal articles. His research has been supported by the Rachel Carson Center, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.
Zusammenfassung
Shows how Shakespeare's fascination with the sea has influenced its exploration in literary culture from Moby Dick to contemporary Caribbean poets.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Fathoming: The Tempest and King Lear
2. Keeping Watch: Othello
Interlude: Sunken Treasure
3. Swimming: The Comedy of Errors
4. Beachcombing: Twelfth Night
Interlude: What the Pirates Said to Hamlet
5. Fishing: Pericles
6. Drowning: Timon of Athens
Concluding Interlude: Toward a Blue Cultural Studies
Reading the New Thalassology
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781847064936
ISBN-10: 1847064930
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mentz, Steve
Redaktion: Fernie, Ewan
Palfrey, Simon
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Steve Mentz
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2009
Gewicht: 0,153 kg
Artikel-ID: 131782385
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