What is the ocean's role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, S ren Frank covers an impressive range of material in A Poetic History of the Oceans: Greek, Roman and Biblical texts, an Icelandic Saga, Shakespearean drama, Jens Munk's logbook, 19th century-writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Jules Michelet, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Jonas Lie, and Joseph Conrad as well as their 20th and 21st century-heirs like J. G. Ballard, Jens Bj rneboe, and Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen. A Poetic History of the Oceans promotes what Frank labels an amphibian comparative literature and mobilises recent theoretical concepts and methodological developments in Blue Humanities, Blue Ecology, and New Materialism to shed new light on well-known texts and introduce readers to important, but lesser-known Scandinavian literary engagements with the sea.

A Poetic History of the Oceans Literature and Maritime Modernity (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 98)

Literature & Fiction

University of Southern Denmark

Denmark

Søren Frank

History & Criticism

BRILL

Why was anxiety such a major issue for Søren Kierkegaard and his contemporaries? This book revisits the "original" age of anxiety, the time and place where Kierkegaard's ground-breaking thoughts on anxiety were formed. The pseudonym used by Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety(1844), Vigilius Haufniensis, is Latin for "the watchman of Copenhagen." A guiding question is what the vigilant Haufniensis might have observed in his city--and especially in the literary culture of his time and day? Exploring freedom in many forms, Kierkegaard and his contemporaries found combinations of fear and desire that have later been considered symptomatic of modernity.

The Original Age of Anxiety Essays on Kierkegaard and His Contemporaries (Value Inquiry Book / Studies in the History of Western Philosophy, 370)

Lasse Horne Kjældgaard

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