By Dan Brayton
Study of the sea--both by way of human interplay with it and its literary representation--has been principally neglected via ecocritics. In Shakespeare’s Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime size of a author whose performs and poems have had an important effect on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a brand new direction for ecocritical scholarship.
Shakespeare lived in the course of a time of serious enlargement of geographical wisdom. the area during which he imagined his performs used to be newly understood to be a sphere coated with water. In very important readings of works starting from The Comedy of Errors to the valedictory The Tempest, Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare’s impressive conceptual mastery of the early sleek maritime global and divulges a robust benthic mind's eye at work.
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Was Carson? In the decades after the Second World War, the massive expansion of industrial fishing fleets seemed to promise an infinite bounty from the sea.
This is not a matter of mere oversight or willful ignorance on the part of a few humanities scholars; it is a feature of European culture derived from biblical and Hellenic cosmogonies and articulated in countless works of literature. From the book of Genesis to the English Romantic poets, the historicity of the 22 Backs to the Sea? ocean has been consistently denied, repressed, or erased. Liberal humanism exacerbates this tendency, defining literary study as an inquiry into the human condition; from this perspective the sea is nothing more than a colorful blue background against which the important action—war, desire, nation-formation—occasionally takes place.
For Minot, as for Huxley, the ‘‘myth of inexhaustibility’’ (Cramer’s phrase) was simply a ready formulation for articulating an essentially Romantic belief in the limitlessness of the ocean. Was he really to blame? Was Carson? In the decades after the Second World War, the massive expansion of industrial fishing fleets seemed to promise an infinite bounty from the sea.