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WATERSCAPES The Submersion of the Hero: A Blue Humanities Paradigm | Prof. Steve Mentz

The Submersion of the Hero: A Blue Humanities Paradigm Steve Mentz St. John's University (New York) 22 February 2024, 4 PM CET Ca' Bottacin, Venice Abstract: When Heroes get wet, they lose some of their powers. Heroism, especially classical masculine ideas with connotations of force, domination, and violence, represents a challenge to ecological ideas of interconnection and non-hierarchical systems. A blue humanities view of human power in the Anthropocene amounts to a submersion of the Hero, in which threats of violence, rage for control, and the application of force are all reconfigured. The archetypical Hero Achilles's struggle with the river-god Scamander and Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for the White Whale represent two examples of heroism that greatly need to be submerged. Bio: Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. His publications in eco-studies include An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023), Ocean (2020, Italian translation 2023), Break Up the Anthropocene (2019), and many other books and articles. His volume of poetry, Sailing without Ahab, will appear in April 2024. He still blogs at The Bookfish, www.stevementz.com and even tweets @stevermentz.