Sharks, Death, Surfers ¿ An Illustrated Companion av Melissa McCarthy

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<b>How sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures—and what sharks see when they look back.</b><p>We encounter the world through surfaces: the screen, the page, our skin, the ocean''s swell. Here on the sea is the surfer, positioned at the edge of the collapsing wave. And lurking underneath in a monstrous mirroring is the shark. When the two meet, carving along the surface, breaking through the boundary, death appears. </p><p>Steering her analysis from the newspaper obituary through literature and past cinema, Melissa McCarthy investigates a fundamental aspect of the human condition: our state of being between life and death, always in precarious and watery balance. <i>Sharks, Death, Surfers</i> observes how sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures, then flips the lens (and dissects the cornea) to consider what sharks see when they look back. </p><p>These refracted lines of inquiry—optical, philosophical, historical—conve