„Hloubání a voda jsou navždy spjaty“: Vzestup modré ekokritiky

• Authors: Macl Ondřej

Title variants

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“Meditation and Water Are Wedded For Ever”: The Rise of Blue Ecocriticism

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

The article introduces blue ecocriticism into Czech literary studies by reviewing Steve Mentz’s volume An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023). It briefly outlines the circumstances of the cultural turn to the seas and oceans around the year 2000 and its current shift from the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to the more global Pacific, as well as from the seas and oceans to the planetary water cycle. It will take a closer look at Mentz’s blue strategies, interpretations, inspirations, and problems, to conclude by considering the potential of blue ecocriticism for the (seemingly) landlocked Czech intellectual climate.

Keywords

CS

Modrá ekokritika; modré humanitní vědy; Steve Mentz; voda; moře; oceán

EN

Blue ecocriticism; blue humanities; Steve Mentz; water; sea; ocean

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 69
• Pages: 129-141

Contributors

author

Macl Ondřej

• Univerzita Karlova