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14b. Bonus: Steve Mentz on The Tempest.
What I’m trying to think about is what the history of our planet looks like
from an oceanic rather than a terrestrial perspective. What does The
Tempest look like if we think about The
Tempest from the perspective of the water? How does that enable us to rethink
literary questions, aesthetic questions, environmental questions?
You don’t want to go too deep into thinking about the ocean without Steve
Mentz as your guide, especially when
you’re looking at Shakespeare’s oceans. Steve is a professor of English at St
John’s University in New York City and the author and editor of many books on
early modern literature, eco-poetics, and blue/oceanic humanities, including
At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, Shipwreck
Modernity, the essay collection Oceanic New
York, and most recently,
Break Up the Anthropocene. His biography of the
Ocean will be coming out next year as part of
Bloomsbury’s delightful Object
Lesson series. Suzanne
and Chris talk with him about The Tempest, about swimming in the Atlantic, and
about what happens when you consider the ocean’s perspective.
Show Notes.
Steve Mentz on Twitter and his
website.
The wreck of the Sea Venture.
Aimé Césaire: A Tempest. (Some
excerpts.)
Kamau Brathwaite:
Caliban.
Édouard Glissant: Collected Poems.
Chantal Zabus’s Tempests after Shakespeare has many
more examples of Tempest rewritings.
Medea’s
speech
from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (about halfway down the page: “O trustie time of
night…”) is one of the scenes we didn’t discuss in episode
3.
Vija Celmins’s ocean drawings.
An Everywhere of Silver.
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What I’m trying to think about is what the history of our planet looks like
from an oceanic rather than a terrestrial perspective. What does The
Tempest look like if we think about The
Tempest from the perspective of the water? How does that enable us to rethink
literary questions, aesthetic questions, environmental questions?
You don’t want to go too deep into thinking about the ocean without Steve
Mentz as your guide, especially when
you’re looking at Shakespeare’s oceans. Steve is a professor of English at St
John’s University in New York City and the author and editor of many books on
early modern literature, eco-poetics, and blue/oceanic humanities, including
At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, Shipwreck
Modernity, the essay collection Oceanic New
York, and most recently,
Break Up the Anthropocene. His biography of the
Ocean will be coming out next year as part of
Bloomsbury’s delightful Object
Lesson series. Suzanne
and Chris talk with him about The Tempest, about swimming in the Atlantic, and
about what happens when you consider the ocean’s perspective.
Show Notes.
Steve Mentz on Twitter and his
website.
The wreck of the Sea Venture.
Aimé Césaire: A Tempest. (Some
excerpts.)
Kamau Brathwaite:
Caliban.
Édouard Glissant: Collected Poems.
Chantal Zabus’s Tempests after Shakespeare has many
more examples of Tempest rewritings.
Medea’s
speech
from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (about halfway down the page: “O trustie time of
night…”) is one of the scenes we didn’t discuss in episode
3.
Vija Celmins’s ocean drawings.
An Everywhere of Silver.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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