Homeric Seafaring
by Project Muse, Mark, Samuel, (Samuel EuGene)
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
"In this comprehensive history of Homer's references to ships and seafaring, author Samuel Mark reveals patterns in the way that the Greeks build ships and approached the sea between 850 and 750 B.C. To discuss and clarify the terms used by Homer, Mark draws on scholarly literat…
"In this comprehensive history of Homer's references to ships and seafaring, author Samuel Mark reveals patterns in the way that the Greeks build ships and approached the sea between 850 and 750 B.C. To discuss and clarify the terms used by Homer, Mark draws on scholarly literat…
"In this comprehensive history of Homer's references to ships and seafaring, author Samuel Mark reveals patterns in the way that the Greeks build ships and approached the sea between 850 and 750 B.C. To discuss and clarify the terms used by Homer, Mark draws on scholarly literat…
Machine generated contents note: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn -- Meredith Farmer -- Part I. Ontologies -- 1. Sailing without Ahab -- Steve Mentz -- 2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales -- Branka Arsić -- 3. Ahab after Agency …
"For years critics have viewed Herman Melville's Captain Ahab as the paradigm of a strong, controlling agent. Farmer and Schroeder's volume aims to rethink Ahab through a series of "materialist" frames, including posthumanism, disability studies, affect theory, animal studies, e…