Placeholder text

Go to cart

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

By Steve Mentz

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean Contemporary literature

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

0 - Default Title
Description
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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
136
Release Date:
2009-12-10
Publication Date:
2009-10-10
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847064922
ISBN13:
9781847064929
Weight:
312 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out