Reading The Sea
by:
Kevin Alexander Boon
Format:
Hardcover
Pub Date:
1999
Price:
$29.95
ISBN:
0-9670328-1-4
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The 13 unique writings in Kevin Alexander Boon’s Reading the Sea delve into the sea’s relationship to the works of some of the great literary artists of yesterday and today. Contributors to this collection interrogate issues as ancient as medieval dream analysis and as prevalent as gender inscription through their insight and analysis of the poems, plays, novels and novellas penned by the authors such as Herman Melville, Daniel Defoe, Charles Johnson, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Walcott, John Millington Synge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others.
As a result of this pensive reflection and dissection by the contributing writers, Reading the Sea reveals how our relationship to the sea is a link to attitudes about cultural exchange, spiritual awakening, race relations, gender identification and the politics of power. With clarity and insight, the contributing writers expose how our struggle to penetrate the sea’s mysteries parallels our struggle to understand ourselves.
About the Author
Kevin Alexander Boon is the managing editor of the Fort Schuyler Press and an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the State University of New York Maritime College. He is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles.
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Praise
"When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters."
--Stephen Crane
"The sea's bounty sustains us, and its waters carry our commerce, but it is the sea's majesty and power that fuel our imaginations."
- Rear Admiral David C. Brown
"You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in."
--Herman Melville
