Research Catalog

Title

Meanings and values of water in Russian culture / edited by Jane Costlow and Arja Rosenholm.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Costlow, Jane T. (Jane Tussey), 1955-
• Rosenholm, Arja

Description

xiii, 267 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"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 physical phenomenon, representing particular rivers (the Volga, the Chusovaia in the Urals, the Neva) and bodies of water (from Baikal to sacred springs and the flowing water of nineteenth-century estates), but also powerful systems of meaning from traditional cultures and those forged in the radical restructuring undertaken in the 1930s. Individual chapters explore the polyvalence and contestation of meanings, dimensions and values given to water in various times and spaces in Russian history. The reservoir of symbolic association is tapped by poets and film makers but also by policy makers, the popular press and advertisers seeking to incite reaction or drive sales. The volume's emphasis on the cultural dimensions of water will link material that is often widely disparate in time and space; it will also serve as the methodological framework for the analysis undertaken both within chapters and in the editors' introduction"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in modern European history ; 34

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in modern European history ; 34.

Subject

• Water and civilization
• Water > History. > Russia
• Water > History. > Soviet Union
• Bodies of water > History. > Russia
• Bodies of water > History. > Soviet Union
• Russia > Civilization
• Soviet Union > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section One: Language and Myths of Water -- Ivan Podiukov, "Cultural Semantics of Aquatic Imagery in the Russian Language" -- Nicholas Breyfogle, "Sacred Waters : The Spiritual World of Lake Baikal" -- Evgeny Platonov, "Wells of Superstition : The History of Holy Springs in Russia, 18th-19th Centuries" -- Dmitrii Zamyatin, "Thinking with Water in a Russian Context" -- Section Two: Socio-Cultural Identities of Water -- Oleg Riabov, "Mother Volga and the Construction of Russian Identity" -- Maria Litovskaia, "The Chief Worker of the Urals : Metanarrative of the Chusovaia River and its Creation" -- Sveta Yamin-Pasternak, Andrew Kliskey, Lilian Alessa and Peters Schweitzer, "A Cup of Tundra : Ethnography of Thirst in the Bering Strait" -- Section Three: Water Rebuilding Landscapes -- Elena Miliugina and Mikhail Stroganov, "Water on the Russian Gentry Estate" -- Polina Barskova, "Celebrating the Return of the Flood of Petersburg : 1824/1924" -- Cynthia Ruder, "Imagined and Real : The Moscow Canal as 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 Water Ontologies in Russian Symbolist Poetics" -- Jane Costlow, "Parched : Water and its Absence in the Films of Larisa Shepitʹko" -- Arja Rosenholm, "The Energizing Flow of Water in Marietta Shaginian's Novel Hydrocentral" -- Gitta Hammarberg, "Spatriotism : Water in Literary Polemics (Early 19th century Russia)."

ISBN

• 9781472447500
• 1472447506
• 9781315594378 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2016021353
• 40026662304

OCLC

• ocn949922793
• 949922793
• SCSB-5875750

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries