Object Lessons / Ocean
(Sprache: Englisch)
Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective.
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Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today's deluge of plastic trash and acidification, but the mismatch between small bodies and vast seas also emphasizes the frailty and resilience of human experience. From ancient stories of shipwrecked sailors to the containerized future of 21st-century commerce, Ocean splashes the histories we thought we knew into salty and unfamiliar places. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Deterratorializing Preface 1. Two Origins: Alien or Core? 2. Seafood before History 3. Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles 4. Wet Globalization I: The Premodern Anthropocene 5. Sea Poetry I: Adamastor as Warning and Gate 6. Sailors: A Technological History 7. Interlude: Port of New York 8. Sea Poetry II: The Sea in Emily Dickinson 9. Myth II: Queequeg and Other Mermaids 10. Wet Globalization II: Containers 11. Blue Environmentalism: Rachel Carson 12. Swimmers: Immersive Histories Acknowledgments Reading the Blue Humanities: A Bibliographical Essay Index
Autoren-Porträt von Steve Mentz
Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John's University, USA. He is the author of three books, including Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550 - 1719 (2015), and the editor of four books. His maritime research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Steve Mentz
- 2020, 192 Seiten, Maße: 11,9 x 16,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Christopher Schaberg, Ian Bogost
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 1501348639
- ISBN-13: 9781501348631
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Steve Mentz's Ocean is both a lyrical and scholarly ode to the sea, encrusting and fluid. The Millions
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