August 12, 2019

14b. Bonus: Steve Mentz on The Tempest.

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42 minutes

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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August 12, 2019

14b. Bonus: Steve Mentz on The Tempest.

Listen Later

42 minutes

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.

...more