Water and Sea in Word and Image / l'Eau Et La Mer Dans Les Textes Et Les Images (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004541269)

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Water and Sea in Word and Image / l'Eau Et La Mer Dans Les Textes Et Les Images

$120.00

Water and Sea in Word and Image / l'Eau Et La Mer Dans Les Textes Et Les Images

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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To what extent does water constitute an archetypal element, producing moral values and prone to ambivalence? Myths abound with magical fountains, fertile rivers or deadly abysses. Water lends itself to rites of lustration or regenerative baptismal immersion. Circumnavigation has given rise to epic tales of conquest or exploration, populated by monsters and delights. The specificity of this volume is the knotting together of the iconic and the verbal, by renewing our trust in the exemplary regime of art, most capable of apprehending the unpredictable, the ephemeral, and the continuous. Against the backdrop of existential shipwrecks, water wars, the proliferation of microplastics, the scoriae of an unbridled productivity, a work like this one can raise awareness about the right to water, its beneficial virtues, and its inexhaustible imaginary.

Dans quelle mesure l'eau constitue-t-elle un élément archétypal, producteur de valeurs et enclin aux ambivalences ? Les mythes regorgent de fontaines magiques, de fleuves matriciels ou d'abysses mortifères. L'eau se prête à des rites de lustration ou d'immersion baptismale régénérante. La circumnavigation a engendré des récits épiques à visée conquérante ou humaniste, peuplés de monstres et de délices. Il s'agit ici d'établir un lien entre l'iconique et le verbal en renouvelant notre confiance dans le régime d'exemplarité de l'art, seul à même d'appréhender ce qui est imprévisible, éphémère et continu. Contre les naufrages existentiels, les guerres de l'eau, le pullulement des microplastiques, scories d'un productivisme effréné, un ouvrage comme celui-ci peut sensibiliser au droit à l'eau partagé, à ses vertus bienfaisantes et à son imaginaire inépuisable.

Author: Nathalie Roelens
ISBN-10: 9004541268
ISBN-13: 9789004541269
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2023
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.69d
By Nathalie Roelens
By Nathalie Roelens
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Nathalie Roelens is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Luxembourg where she directs the Institute of Romance Studies, Media and Arts. She co-leads the "Dressing the Invisible" seminar (Collège des Bernardins, Paris). Her research interests include visual semiotics.
Véronique Plesch is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art Department at Colby College (Waterville, Maine). President of IAWIS/AIERTI from 2008 to 2017, her research encompasses a range of topics with steady focus on word and image studies.
Catriona MacLeod is Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. Current senior editor of the journal Word & Image, her research focuses on Romantic literature and the visual arts.
Armand Erchadi is Research Assistant at the Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Luxembourg. He is a specialist in comparative literature and literary theory and his research focuses on the epic genre and value in the Indo-European domain.

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