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Water in social imagination : from technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism /
Water in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water - and how water has shaped both material culture and the imagination. Essays from diverse perspectives offer histories of water at different scales - from community water wells and sacred springs to Sib...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Nature, Culture and Literature Ser.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Water in Social Imagination: from Technological Optimism to Contemporary Environmentalism; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; 1 Knowing Water: An Introduction; 2 Liquid Scale: Trans-Scalar Thinking and the Perception of Water; 3 Water and Urban Space in Late Medieval Stockholm; 4 The Many Roles of the Dynamic Danube in Early Modern Europe: Representations in Contemporary Sources; 5 Water, Space, and Desire in Soviet Fiction: The Case of Konstantin Paustovsky; 6 The Interplay of Water, Home, and Narration in Überfahrt by Anna Seghers.
- 7 The River in Thaw-era Soviet Popular Song (1954-1970): The Formation of an Amicable Space8 "The Sovereign of the River and the Sovereign of All Nature-in the Same Trap"; 9 The Pollution of the Baltic Sea: A Mirror Image of Modernization; 10 The Deep Waters of Literary Theme. Nature, Narrative, and Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna; 11 A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea. Water Myths and Risk Society in Veronica Pimenoff's Risteilijät; 12 "It was only a tiny spring": Veneration, Value and Local Springs in Contemporary Russia; 13 Securing Water: Ambiguities of Control vs. Coexistence.