Meanings and values of water in Russian culture /

"Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies and history, this is the first volume to study water as a cultural phenomenon within the Russian/Soviet context. Water in this context is both a cognitive and cultural construct and a geographical and p...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Costlow, Jane T., Ed, Rosenholm, Arja, Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: London: Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in modern European history ;
Subjects:
Water and civilization.
Water > Russia
Water > Soviet Union
Bodies of water > Russia
Bodies of water > Soviet Union
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=FCglDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=9781138687844&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcx9_JwtbgAhXObn0KHRDxAYwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=9781138687844&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Section One: Language and Myths of Water
  • Ivan Podiukov, The Cultural Semantics of Water Idioms in Russian Dialects
  • Nicholas Breyfogle, Sacred Waters : The Spiritual World of Lake Baikal
  • Evgenii Platonov, On the veneration of Springs in the Nineteenth Century : Models of Behavior and Decision-Making Practices
  • Dmitry Zamyatin, Daemon Loci : The Formation of River Images in Russian Mental Worlds
  • Section Two: Socio-Cultural Identities of Water
  • Oleg Riabov, "Mother Volga" and "Mother Russia" : On the Role of the River in Gendering Russianness
  • Maria Litovskaia, Main Street of the Urals : Creating the "Chusovaia" Metanarrative
  • Sveta Yamin-Pasternak, Peter Schweitzer, Igor Pasternak, Andrew Kliskey, and Lilian Alessa, A Cup of Tundra : Ethnography of Water and Thirst in the Bering Strait
  • Section Three: Water Rebuilding Landscapes
  • E. G. Miliugina and M. V. Stroganov, Water on the Russian Gentry Estate
  • Polina Barskova, Celebrating the Return of the Flood
  • Cynthia Ruder, Water and power : The Moscow Canal and the "Port of Five Seas"
  • Section Four: Aesthetics and Poetics of Water
  • Anastasia Kostetskaya, A Woman in Nature/A Woman is Nature : The Eternal Feminine as a Conceptual Blend of Human and Liquescent Ontologies in Russian Symbolist Poetics"
  • Jane Costlow, Parched : Water and its Absence in the Films of Larisa Shepitʹko
  • Arja Rosenholm, "Water Flows and Teaches" : Marietta Shaginian's Novel Hydrocentral
  • Gitta Hammarberg, Spatriotism : Water Recycling in Literary Polemics (Late Eighteenth-to Early Nineteenth-Century Russia)".

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