Benjamin Dillon Schluter (Author)
Weatherby, Leif (Advisor)
New York University
Weatherby, Leif
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Language: English
This dissertation explores radical sea imagery in philosophy, natural science, literature, and opera at the turn of the 19th century. Close analyses of the works of Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and E.T.A. Hoffmann trace a cultural turn to the sea in Germany during the period between the Enlightenment and Romanticism, focusing on how this process gives rise to more fluid practices of writing, knowing and creating. In particular, I attend to an upsurge of oceanic symbolism that challenges what recent scholars in critical ocean studies have called the “terrestrial bias” of central concepts in Western thought and culture. This dissertation thus emphasizes the sea’s power to disrupt terrestrially biased categories like fixity, linearity, and enclosure that have been traditionally privileged in Western epistemologies.
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