Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719 [Audiobook] download free by Steve Mentz
- Listen audiobook: Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719
- Author: Steve Mentz
- Release date: 2015/12/31
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780816691067
- Rating: 8.24 of 10
- Votes: 570
- Review by: Angela Lynn
- Review rating: 7.05 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/5
- Duration: 3H21M14S in 256 kbps (52.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-13
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, AAC, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC (compression ZIP, RAR, XZ, ISO, AZW)
- Total pages original book: 264
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M44S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty.Steve Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet globalization, blue ecology, and shipwreck modernity. The years during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also a time when maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon makers, and many others. Through coming to terms with shipwreck, these figures adapted to disruptive change.Traces of shipwreck ecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne to Defoe and also in sermons, tales of survival, amateur poetry, and the diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors. The isolated islands of Bermuda and the perils of divine anger hold central places. Modern sailor-poets including Herman Melville serve as valuable touchstones in the effort to parse the reality and understandings of global shipwreck.Offering the first ecocritical account of early modern shipwreck narratives, Shipwreck Modernity reveals the surprisingly modern truths to be found in these early stories of ecological collapse.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Theory, Literary Studies: General, Globalization, Ships & Shipping, Literature: History & Criticism
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 28.40 USD
- Dimensions: 140x216x17.78mm
- Weight: 317.51g
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- Published in: Minnesota, United States
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