Meanings and Values of Water in Russian Culture 1st edition by Arja Rosenholm, Jane Costlow ISBN 1472447506 978-1472447500
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ISBN 10: 1472447506
ISBN 13: 978-1472447500
Author: Arja Rosenholm, Jane Costlow
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.
Meanings and Values of Water in Russian Culture 1st Table of contents:
Section I: Language and myths of water
1 The cultural semantics of water idioms in Russian dialects
Dialect idioms reflecting common symbolic meanings of water
The plot elements of water idioms in dialects
Notes
Bibliography
2 Sacred waters: The spiritual world of Lake Baikal
Water and the sacred
Creation stories: Baikal and the Buriats
Sacred waters and rocks: the water-related cosmologies of Baikal
Water, spirits, and human action
Contested waters
Divine Baikal
The religious world of Lake Baikal
Notes
Bibliography
3 On the veneration of springs in the nineteenth century: Models of behavior and decision-making practices
Notes
Bibliography
4 Daemon loci: The formation of river images in Russian mental worlds
River worlds: introduction to the context
Images of the river: stasis and dynamism
Daemon loci: the image’s genesis
The river and image archetypes: the pathways of civilizations
River discourse in Russian culture and literature: key elements
River and place: the becoming of image
The river text of Sasha Sokolova: the twilight of daemons
Zaitil’shchina: the optics of twilight landscapes
Notes
Bibliography
Section II: Socio-cultural identities of water
5 “Mother Volga” and “Mother Russia”: On the role of the river in gendering Russianness
Rivers in the discourse of nationalism: gender dimension
The symbol of “Mother Russia” in Russian nationalism
“Mother Volga”: the history of the idea
Gendering semiotics of Volga
The functions of “Mother Volga”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
6 Main street of the Urals: Creating the “Chusovaia” metanarrative
The Chusovaia: the “natural” foundation of a symbolic space
The Chusovaia: literature discovers the river
Chusovaia: tourist destination and site of class struggle
The Chusovaia: inventing the “message”
Note
Bibliography
7 A cup of tundra: Ethnography of water and thirst in the Bering Strait
Introduction
From the ice curtain to a steamy cup
The loved and ubiquitous beverage
Tea time in the Bering Strait
Finding “tasty tea” in contemporary water systems
Water in cooking and cleansing
Feeling and quenching thirst on each side of the Strait
Tea, coffee, and national belonging within the shared Beringian heritage
Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Section III: Water rebuilding landscapes
8 Water on the Russian gentry estate
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Notes
Bibliography
9 Celebrating the return of the flood
I. The new and the old: politics of the flood
II. Desire and anxiety of the flood
Notes
Bibliography
10 Water and power: The Moscow Canal and the “Port of Five Seas”
Notes
Bibliography
Section IV: Aesthetics and poetics of water
11 A woman in nature/A WOMAN IS NATURE: The eternal feminine as a conceptual blend of human and liquescent ontologies in Russian Symbolist poetics
Introduction
Approaches: cognitive framework
Bal’mont’s and Musatov’s shared Symbolist poetics of the eternal feminine
Konstantin Bal’mont: “Apparitions”
Viktor Borisov-Musatov: Apparitions
Notes
Bibliography
12 Parched: Water and its absence in the films of Larisa Shepit’ko
Notes
Bibliography
13 “Water flows and teaches”: Marietta Shaginian’s novel Hydrocentral
The power plant of desire production
The palimpsestic text of the “sea of life”
Challenging modernization
Aqueous dissolution and metonymic discourse
“Concrete-water factor”
Notes
Bibliography
14 Spatriotism: Water recycling in literary polemics (late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century Russia)
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