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Author : Steve Mentz
Release : 2009-12-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 930/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean by : Steve Mentz
Download or read book At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean written by Steve Mentz. This book was released on 2009-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery.
Author : Steve Mentz
Release : 2009
Genre : Sea in literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 833/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean by : Steve Mentz
Download or read book At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean written by Steve Mentz. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Daniel Brayton
Release : 2012
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 262/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Ocean by : Daniel Brayton
Download or read book Shakespeare's Ocean written by Daniel Brayton. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare’s Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a new course for ecocritical scholarship. Shakespeare lived during a time of great expansion of geographical knowledge. The world in which he imagined his plays was newly understood to be a sphere covered with water. In vital readings of works ranging from The Comedy of Errors to the valedictory The Tempest, Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare’s remarkable conceptual mastery of the early modern maritime world and reveals a powerful benthic imagination at work.
Author : David L. Kirp
Release : 2003-11-30
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 465/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line by : David L. Kirp
Download or read book Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line written by David L. Kirp. This book was released on 2003-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university's success.
Author : Stuart Elden
Release : 2018-12-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 19X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespearean Territories by : Stuart Elden
Download or read book Shakespearean Territories written by Stuart Elden. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare’s unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare’s plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.
