Steve Mentz

THE BOOKFISH

THALASSOLOGY, SHAKESPEARE, AND SWIMMING

  • Home
  • Steve Mentz
  • Humanities Commons
  • Public Writing
  • The sea! the sea!
  • The Bookfish
  • St. Johns

Dead Horse Lear! (Sept 19)

September 9, 2016 by Steve Mentz 2 Comments

learCome hear a four-hundred year old tragedy speak to twenty-first century environmental catastrophe! The storm-poetry will rage at low tide at Dead Horse Bay’s Glass Bottle Beach on Sept 19 at 5:30 pm!

Join me and the students in my Open King Lear grad seminar to walk this amazing beach, the site of a nineteenth-century landfill and horse rendering plant, with Professor Craig Dionne, author most recently of Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene (Punctum Books, 2015).

We’ll look and listen to sounds of long-ago and still ongoing disasters, talk about how human bodies encounter hostile environments, and explore the boundaries of literary representation and ecological understanding. Professor Dionne will speak about how King Lear reimagines language and humanity in and after catastrophe.

Praise the world to the angel (Rilke)

160210posthumanlear-coverfront-1

We’ll also be joined by St. John’s Professor Elizabeth Albert and the editors of underwaternewyork.com, who have recently collaborated on the gorgeous volume Silent Beaches, Untold Stories, which explores the forgotten history and artistic present of New York’s waterways.

Reason not the need! (Lear)

All are welcome! We’ll meet in the parking lot at Floyd Bennet Field / 50 Aviator Road and together walk the 15 min trail out to the beach.

Please contact Steve Mentz (mentzs@stjohns.edu) if you’d like to join us!

Glass Bottle Beach

Glass Bottle Beach

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Comments

  1. Stuart Elden says

    September 9, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    Sounds good – though rather too far to travel. Just seen the RSC’s King Lear with Antony Sher. Still digesting it, but the first half and especially the opening scene was tremendous.

    Reply
    • Steve Mentz says

      September 16, 2016 at 9:36 am

      I hope I can see that production at some point — though I won’t be back in Stratford until next summer at least!

      Reply

Leave a Reply to Stuart Elden Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About Steve

Steve Mentz
Professor of English
St. John’s University
Read Bio

Twitter Feed

Steve MentzFollow

Shakespearean. Ecocritic. Swimmer. New book Ocean #objectsobjects Professor at St. John's in NYC. #bluehumanities #pluralizetheanthropocene

Steve Mentz
stevermentzSteve Mentz@stevermentz·
4 May

Today's the day! I'm doing something a bit different in this lecture, shaping my thoughts around the work and intellectual legacy of John Gillis. It'll be recorded, for people who can't be in the room or on the Zoom today in Bern!

Reply on Twitter 1521728614169038849Retweet on Twitter 15217286141690388497Like on Twitter 152172861416903884935Twitter 1521728614169038849
stevermentzSteve Mentz@stevermentz·
2 May

Very excited to be in Bern, and I’m looking forward to the lecture and workshop!

Reply on Twitter 1521067987679289345Retweet on Twitter 15210679876792893455Like on Twitter 152106798767928934515Twitter 1521067987679289345
Load More...

Pages

  • #shax2022 s31: Rethinking the Early Modern Literary Caribbbean
  • OCEAN Publicity
  • #SAA 2020: Watery Thinking
  • Creating Nature: May 2019 at the Folger
  • Audio and Video Recordings
  • Oceanic New York
  • Public Writing
  • Published Work
  • #pluralizetheanthropocene

Recent Posts

  • License to Kill: Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in Macbeth on Broadway
  • Remember Me? Specters of #shax2022
  • Fictions, Genres, and Planetary Waters in Auburn
  • Oceanic Turns: Five Linked Sessions at AAG 2022 (Zoom-NYC; 25 Feb)
  • Merchant of Venice at Tfana (Feb 2022)

Copyright © 2022 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in