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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 Siberian rivers and the regulated space of the Baltic Sea. From early modernization through Soviet style technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism, water’s ideological uses are multiple. With sustained attention not just to state policy and the technologies of high modernity, but to creative resistance to utilitarian imaginations, these essays insist on fluidities of meaning, ambiguities that derive both from water’s physical mutability and from its dual nature as life necessity and agent of destruction.

Water and civilization. --- Water in literature. --- Ecocriticism.

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This work of literary criticism explores literature about canals in Britain, from poetry about early industrial waterways in the eighteenth century to 'canal noir' in the twenty-first. Themes include water, climate, gender, Empire, fossils, nature, labour and time.

English literature --- Water in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- Literature, Medieval --- Water in literature --- Water use --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- History --- -Water in literature --- -Water use --- -Use of water --- Utilization of water --- Water --- Water utilization --- Water-supply --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- -Congresses --- Utilization --- Congresses. --- -History and criticism --- Use of water --- History and criticism&delete& --- History&delete& --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism - Congresses --- Water in literature - Congresses --- Water use - History - Congresses --- vie quotidienne --- eau

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Offers the first sustained treatise on watercourses in the African American expressive tradition.

Ecocriticism. --- Water in motion pictures. --- Water in literature. --- African diaspora in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- American fiction --- African American authors --- History and criticism.

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This book investigates a corpus of royal inscriptions and literary texts, with special emphasis on those that are mythological and biblical, stretching over several millennia from the early days of Sumer to the Biblical period, in order to determine the ways in which the concept of water was used, in particular the way it functions in the political and theological ideology of the time. Three literary motifs are the object of a careful study : the crossing of water, the flood and the water of abundance. Though their study shows diversity in evolution, transmission and reception, it appears that their function is common at the heart of the Mesopotamian political theology of royal mediation.

Iraq --- Water --- Political theology --- Water in the Bible. --- Cuneiform inscriptions. --- Water in literature. --- Sumerian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization --- Mythology --- History --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- History and criticism. --- -Water --- -Political theology --- -Water in the Bible. --- -Assyro-Babylonian literature --- -291.212.2 --- 892.1 --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Public theology --- Hydrology --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Inscriptions, Cuneiform --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian inscriptions --- -Mythology --- -History --- -Religious aspects --- -Political aspects --- -History and criticism. --- Verering van water en bronnen. Hydrolatrie --- Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- 892.1 Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- 291.212.2 Verering van water en bronnen. Hydrolatrie --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Water in literature --- Water in the Bible --- 291.212.2 --- History and criticism --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Iraq - Civilization - To 634 - Sources --- Water - Mythology - Iraq - History - Sources --- Water - Iraq - Religious aspects - History - Sources --- Water - Political aspects - Iraq - History - Sources --- Political theology - Iraq - History - Sources --- Sumerian literature - History and criticism. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism.