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"Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers-the Dnieper, Volga, Neva, Don, and Angara. Each chapter traces, within a geographical and historical context, the evolution of the literary representation of one river. Imagination may endow a river with aesthetic or spiritual qualities, ethnic, national, or racial associations, or commercial or agricultural symbolism of many kinds. Russian literary responses to these five rivers have much to tell us about the society that produced them as well as the rivers they treat"--
Russian literature --- Rivers in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Rivers in literature. --- French literature --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1999
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Rivermen examines the mythic context and psychological dimensions of the river and its source through an investigation of the recurring motifs associated with the source in classical and English literature -the heroic quest, the river journey, and the naiad or muse. Frederic Colwell focuses on the writings of those redoubtable rivermen, the English Romantic poets. He explores poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, showing that the image of the river is used in their work as a compelling archetype and a metaphor for the nature and process of the creative impulse. From the preface: "Unlike the rhythms of oceans, rivers have direction and a purposive flow. The river's will is always its own, not laid down by man, for whom the river passage demands a surrender to its will, its currents and eddies. To move with the flow is to course with time and change; to stand astride or view it from a height offers the prophetic stance by which we contemplate its entire passage, its past, present, and the brightening waters or rippling shoals ahead."
English poetry --- English literature --- Romanticism --- Rivers in literature. --- History and criticism.
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In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about
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Wie das Meer haben auch Flüsse schon immer eine starke Anziehungskraft auf die Menschen ausgeübt - nicht nur wegen der Wasserversorgung. Flüsse garantieren einen besseren und leichteren Kontakt mit anderen Regionen und Ländern, indem man sie als Verkehrswege benützen kann. Diesem verbindenden Element steht aber eine trennende Komponente gegenüber. Ein extremes Beispiel dafür ist die Spree, die im geteilten Berlin viele Jahre auf einen gefürchteten Todesstreifen reduziert wurde. Im Folgenden steht ein Fluss im Mittelpunkt, dessen Lage zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich den Geschichtsverlauf in Europa in hohem Maße geprägt hat und der in den Niederlanden immer noch als Mentalitätsgrenze zwischen dem mehrheitlich protestantischen Norden und dem als katholisch geltenden Süden gesehen wird: der Rhein. So wie die meisten großen Flüsse ist auch der Rhein geheimnisvoll und sagenumwoben. Bis heute regt die Loreley die Phantasie vieler Menschen an. Im Laufe der Zeit haben sich viele Schriftsteller, Maler und Musiker immer wieder von der Schönheit des Rheins und der Rheinlandschaft inspirieren lassen. Dass sich die Künstler dabei nicht immer von rein ästhetischen Motiven leiten ließen, zeigt sich in der Tatsache, dass der Rhein sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Frankreich in manchen Schriften, Gemälden und Musikstücken zum nationalen Fluss hochstilisiert wurde, dessen Größe und Stärke auf eine ganze Nation projiziert wurde. Der Gebrauch und Missbrauch der schönen Künste zur Bestimmung der nationalen Identität und bei der Sicherstellung der nationalen Einheit stehen im vorliegenden Band genauso im Mittelpunkt wie ästhetische Analysen künstlerischer Darstellungen.
German literature --- Rivers in literature --- Streams in literature --- History and criticism
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Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex world. Using religious narrative sources to evaluate the environmental mentalities of medieval communities, Ellen F. Arnold explores the cultural meanings applied to rivers over a broad span of time, ca. 300-1100 CE. Hagiographical material, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historiographical works are explored to examine the medieval environmental imaginations about rivers, and how storytelling and memory are connected to lived experiences in riverscapes. She argues that rivers provided unique opportunities for medieval communities to understand and respond to ecological and socio-cultural transformations, and to connect their ideas about the shared religious past to hopes about the future.
Rivers in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Rivers --- Human ecology --- History and criticism. --- History --- Europe --- Environmental conditions. --- History of Europe --- anno 300-399 --- anno 500-1199 --- anno 400-499 --- Middle Ages. --- Cours d'eau --- Human ecology. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Littérature médiévale --- Moyen Âge. --- Rivers. --- Histoire et critique. --- To 1500. --- Europe.
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Geography, Ancient, in literature. --- Latin literature --- Nature in literature. --- Rivers in literature. --- Rivers --- History and criticism. --- Virgil --- Knowledge --- Geography. --- Geography, Ancient, in literature --- Nature in literature --- Rivers in literature --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Bodies of water --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism --- Vergil --- Virgile --- Virgilio Máron, Publio --- Virgilius Maro, Publius --- Vergili Maronis, Publius --- Vergilius Maro, Publius --- Virgilius Maro, Publius, --- Virgilio Marone, P., --- Vergilīĭ, --- Virgile, --- Vergílio, --- Wergiliusz, --- Vergilīĭ Maron, P. --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ, --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P., --- Vergil, --- Virgilio, --- Virgilīĭ, --- Virgilius Maro, P., --- Virgil Maro, P., --- ווירגיל, --- וירגיליוס, --- ורגיליוס, --- מרו, פובליוס ורגיליוס, --- فرجيل, --- Pseudo-Virgil, --- Pseudo Virgilio, --- Virgilio Marón, Publio, --- Bhārjila, --- Vergilius Maro, P. --- Vergilius --- Virgilio Marone, P. --- Vergilīĭ --- Vergílio --- Wergiliusz --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P. --- Virgilio --- Virgilius Maro, P. --- Virgil Maro, P. --- Pseudo-Virgil --- Pseudo Virgilio --- Virgilio Marón, Publio --- Bhārjila --- Marone, Publio Virgilio
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Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire.Examining artistic representations of rivers, related architecture, and the work of ancient geographers and topographers, as well as writers who describe rivers, Campbell reveals how Romans defined the geographical areas they con
Rivers --- Rivers in art. --- Rivers in literature. --- Navigation --- River life --- History. --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Rome (Italy) --- Geography. --- Politics and government. --- Commerce. --- Navigation, Primitive --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Rome (Italy : Commune) --- Rome (Italy : Governatorato) --- Rūmah (Italy) --- Roma (Italy) --- Rom (Italy) --- Rím (Italy) --- Rzym (Italy) --- Comune di Roma (Italy) --- Outdoor life --- Boat living --- Locomotion --- Orientation --- Nautical astronomy --- Naval art and science --- Pilots and pilotage --- Bodies of water --- Rome --- Rome (Italy : Comune)
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