Autore
Vitanza, Victor J.Titolo
A Third Wave of Remembering the Mediterranean Sea as a Septic TankPeriodico
Journal of Mediterranean knowledge (Online)Anno:
2018 - Volume:
3 - Fascicolo:
1 - Pagina iniziale:
81 - Pagina finale:
86The argument focuses on the differences in methods of historiographies as put forth by
David Abulafia and Fernand Braudel. Their object-of-study is the Mediterranean Sea.
Abulafia focuses primarily on human beings making history, while Braudel focuses on the Sea
making itself, not primarily, as Abulafia insists in his title “A Human History.” Their
vocabulary, as assumed, focuses on latitudes and longitudes. In a radical turn, Kenneth Burke
focuses on the third as attitudes toward history and on casuistic stretchings. Gregory Ulmer,
following-rethinking Burke, develops para-methodologies in the entitlement of “MEmorial,”
that also combines both horizontal-vertical histories. Ulmer’s thoughts piggy-back on Burke
allowing also for the excluded third by way of the reality, as well as the metaphor, of the
Mediterranean Sea, as a Septic Tank, with the casuistic stretching of the Sea, as a Skeptic
Tank. Hence, the writing is better performed than a writing of exposition, which the latter
would only be a performative contradiction!
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