Water in social imagination : : from technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism / / edited by Jane Costlow, Yrjo Haila, Arja Rosenholm.
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...
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| Superior document: | Nature, Culture and Literature ; v.12 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, Culture and Literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages) :; color illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Jane Costlow , Yrjö Haila and Arja Rosenholm
- Knowing Water: An Introduction / Jane Costlow , Yrjö Haila and Arja Rosenholm
- Liquid Scale: Trans-Scalar Thinking and the Perception of Water / Scott Slovic
- Water and Urban Space in Late Medieval Stockholm / Maija Ojala
- The Many Roles of the Dynamic Danube in Early Modern Europe: Representations in Contemporary Sources / Verena Winiwarter
- Water, Space, and Desire in Soviet Fiction: The Case of Konstantin Paustovsky / Arja Rosenholm
- The Interplay of Water, Home, and Narration in Überfahrt by Anna Seghers / Withold Bonner
- The River in Thaw-era Soviet Popular Song (1954–1970): The Formation of an Amicable Space / Maria Litovskaya
- “The Sovereign of the River and the Sovereign of All Nature—in the Same Trap” / Mika Perkiömäki
- The Pollution of the Baltic Sea: A Mirror Image of Modernization / Nina Tynkkynen
- The Deep Waters of Literary Theme. Nature, Narrative, and Identity in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna / Markku Lehtimäki
- A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea. Water Myths and Risk Society in Veronica Pimenoff’s Risteilijät / Toni Lahtinen
- “It was only a tiny spring”: Veneration, Value and Local Springs in Contemporary Russia / Jane Costlow
- Securing Water: Ambiguities of Control vs. Coexistence / Yrjö Haila
- Index / Jane Costlow , Yrjö Haila and Arja Rosenholm.