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Rivers --- Rivers in art --- Rivers in literature
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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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Rivers in literature. --- Scheldt River. --- Meuse River. --- Yser River. --- Lys River.
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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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"More than the lifeblood of our natural world, Texas rivers have nourished the human spirit for as long as people have gathered on their banks. A living bond has flowed between Texas writers and rivers ever since the 1960 publication of John Graves's classic journey along the Brazos, Goodbye to a River. Many of Texas' leading writers have had their hearts captured by a river, and they have created sparkling accounts of the waterways they love. Now, editors Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester have assembled the best of those works into a revelatory collection of diverse literary voices. Ranging from the desert canyonlands of the Rio Grande to the swampy Big Thicket, from crystal clear Hill Country streams to the Red River's treacherous quicksand, Viva Texas Rivers! showcases many classic writings along with brand new essays written for this volume. The literary nonfiction is complemented by flashes of poetry that brilliantly reflect these curving ribbons of light. Authoritative and expertly edited, Viva Texas Rivers! offers shimmering accounts of hidden paradises, as well as searing exposés of abuse and despoliation. Yet even in the bleakest times, as these writers have found, Texas rivers can bestow a sacred grace -- and unexpected redemption. Viva Texas Rivers! brings you as close to the living nirvana of a Texas River as you can get without launching yourself into a canoe and following a great blue heron as it glides just above the breaking rapids, leading you around the bend as the river flows onward toward the best places in our hearts"--Dust jacket.
Cours d'eau --- Cours d'eau --- Rivers --- Rivers in literature. --- Rivers --- Texas. --- Texas --- Texas
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Although fictional—and often fantastic—representations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental issues, and the ways in which human beings interact and identify with their natural surroundings, did not emerge as a field of scholarly interest in the region until the end of the twentieth century. This volume employs an ecocritical lens in order to explore and question the use of the river imagery in Latino and Latin American literature from the colonial period to our modern world, creating a space in which to examine both its literal and figurative meanings, associated as much with processes of a personal nature as with those of the collective experience in the region. The slow, meandering streams of nostalgia, the raging currents of conflict or the stagnant waters of social decay are just a few of the ways in which the river has become an important symbol and inspiration to many of the region’s writers. This book offers a diverse collection of writings that, through a trans-historical and trans-geographical perspective, allows us, from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, to reflect on the rich and dynamic image of the river and, by extension, on the vital context of Latin/o America, its people and societies
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German literature --- German literature. --- Literature. --- Rivers in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Rhine River --- Rhine River. --- In art. --- In literature.
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