Steve Mentz

An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An Introduction to The Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000910100
• Artikelnr.: 68077976

Autorenporträt

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. His academic expertise includes environmental criticism, the blue humanities, Shakespeare studies, early modern European poetry, and critical theory. He has published five single-author books, including most recently Ocean (2020), Break Up the Anthropocene (2019), and Shipwreck Modernity (2015). He has edited or co-edited six other volumes, published many chapters and articles in scholarly journals and collections, and organized exhibitions and symposia on blue humanities topics. His research has been funded by the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the National Maritime Museum in London, and other institutions. He received his Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 2000.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Bodies of Water
1 A Poetics of Planetary Water
2 Blue Humanities Thinking
3 The Vast Pacific
4 The Roaring South
5 The Connected Ocean
6 Surrounded by Land
7 In the Caribbean
8 Northern Lights
9 The Tornadoed Atlantic
10 Conclusion: Touching Moisture
11 Works Cited
12 Essential Reading in the Blue Humanities

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Preface Bodies of Water

1 A Poetics of Planetary Water

2 Blue Humanities Thinking

3 The Vast Pacific

4 The Roaring South

5 The Connected Ocean

6 Surrounded by Land

7 In the Caribbean

8 Northern Lights

9 The Tornadoed Atlantic

10 Conclusion: Touching Moisture

11 Works Cited

12 Essential Reading in the Blue Humanities