Blue Humanities - Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene

"By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Blue Humanities: Crisscrossing Boundaries; 2. Troubled Seas: Oceanic Imagination; 3. Troubled Seas: Scientific Accounts; 4. Distressed Freshwaters; 5. Epilogue.

Summary

By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Serpil Oppermann, Serpil (Cappadocia University Oppermann, Oppermann Serpil
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781009393270
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0939327-0
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Environmental Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction: special features, Climate Change, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory, Physical geography & topography, Limnology (inland waters), Rivers and lakes, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas), Wetlands, Swamps, Fens, Limnology (Freshwater), Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Holocene epoch