| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Nature, Culture and Literature Ser. ; v. 12
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Nature, Culture and Literature Ser.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Water and civilization.
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Water and civilization. |
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Water in literature.
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Water in literature. |
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecocriticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Costlow, Jane T. (Jane Tussey), 1955- editor.
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Haila, Yrjö, editor.
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Rosenholm, Arja, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Water in social imagination. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004333260 (DLC) 2016045360 |
| ISBN |
9004333444 (E-book) |
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9789004333444 (electronic book) |
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9789004333260 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9004333266 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004333444 |
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99975561407 |
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