Sea Fortune : : Literature and Navigation / / Burkhardt Wolf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Wolf, Burkhardt,
• MitwirkendeR: Golb, Joel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXIX, 517 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Note for the English-language edition --; Departure. Topoi of Wiliness: Erring and Returning in the Odyssey --; Chapter 1. Rites of Passage: Cults and Religions of Fortunate Seafaring --; Chapter 2. In Search of Fortune: The Birth of Insurance from Maritime Danger --; Chapter 3. Disorientation: Poetic Experiments with Hydrography --; Chapter 4. The Ship of State: Cultural Techniques of Early Modern “Sea Appropriation” --; Chapter 5. The Figure of the Captain: Doctrine of Maritime State of Emergency --; Chapter 6. The Ethos of Wreckage: Perils of Modernized Seafaring --; Chapter 7. Shipwreck and Seasickness on Land: Terrestrial Loss of Safety --; Chapter 8. Potential Peril: Geopolitical Loss of Difference --; Chapter 9. The Takeoff of Cybernetics: Medial Recursions of the Odyssey --; Conclusion. Memory of the Sea: The Archeology of Maritime Culture --; Cited Literature --; List of Figures --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110610734; 9783110696288; 9783110696271; 9783110659061; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704747; 9783110704532
• ISSN: 2195-2205
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110610734
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Burkhardt Wolf.

Sea fortune has always been an issue of good faith and good navigation. While in antiquity, fortuna gubernatrix was praised for shielding the seaborne trade, in the Renaissance fortuna symbolized the conquest of chance and danger. Under such auspices, while relying on risk technologies modern seafaring has never lost its adventurous dimension. Understanding their origin remains a challenge for the history of science and the history of literature.