Ocean

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-19
Mått:120 x 164 x 18 mm
Vikt:140 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Object Lessons
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501348631

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John’s University, USA. He is the author of four books, including Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550 – 1719 (2015), and the editor of four books. He blogs at The Bookfish (www.stevementz.com).

Recensioner i media

Steve Mentz’s Ocean is both a lyrical and scholarly ode to the sea, encrusting and fluid.

Innehållsförteckning

Deterratorializing Preface 1. Two Origins: Alien or Core? 2. Seafood before History 3. Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles4. 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 AcknowledgmentsReading the Blue Humanities: A Bibliographical EssayIndex