"To what extent does water constitute an archetypal element, producing moral values and prone to ambivalence? Myths abound with magical fountains, matricial rivers or deadly abysses. Water lends itself to rites of lustration or regenerating 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 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 existential shipwrecks, water wars, proliferation of microplastics, scoriae of an unbridled productivism, a work like this one can raise awareness about the right to water, its beneficial virtues and its inexhaustible imaginary"--
Acknowledgments / Remerciements
List of Figures / Liste des illustrations
Contributors / Contributeurs
Introduction
Nathalie Roelens
Part 1: Imaginaries and Rites / Imaginaires et rites
1 Gaston Bachelard, quelle poétique de la mer dans LEau et les Rźves?
Jean-Jacques Wunenburger
2 Limmersion nest pas la lustration
De la purification ą la conversion
Jacques Athanase Gilbert
3 Entre le ciel et les eaux
La Vierge, la mer et la figure de la sirčne dans la prédication, la poésie et
liconographie au vice-royaume du Pérou
Cécile Michaud
Part 2: Geographies and Politics / Géographies et politiques
4 Pour une approche hydrocritique du genre épique
Les Lusiades de Camões comme méta-épopée de leau
Armand Erchadi
5 La mer dans limaginaire politique européen depuis Fénelon ou la pensée
dune impossible frontičre
Daphné Vignon
6 Traverser lAtlantique ą la Renaissance et au Grand Sičcle
La poétique du franchissement transocéanique dans le genre viatique
Nicolas Hebbinckuys
7 Describing the Ocean and the Journals of Eighteenth-Century Pacific
Exploration
Daniel Gane
Part 3: Landscapes and Waterscapes / Paysages et rivages
8 «Le dessein dun jardin autant délectable et dutile invention»
Lévocation des jeux deau dans quelques recueils descriptifs ą la
Renaissance ou lart de la nature joueuse
Pouneh Mochiri
9 Where Monsters Wander in the Foamy Paths
The Chaotic Waterscape of William Blakes The Four Zoas
Camille Adnot
10 The River of Life
Drawing Lessons from Thomas Cole in Images and Words
Véronique Plesch
11 La Mer du Nord sous la plume de Maurice Carźme et dans les esquisses de
Henri-Victor Wolvens
Įgnes Tóth
12 La laisse de mer comme image émergente de lhistoire naturelle
Ana Lķa Gabrieloni
Part 4: Water on Screen / Leau ą lécran
13 Espaces anthropophages: une archéologie culturelle fluviale?
Assimilation et restitution identitaire dans Macunaķma de Mįrio de Andrade
(1928) et Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1969)
Nicolas Piedade
14 Nouvelles Vagues
Images of Time in the Works of Godard and Rohmer
Kathleen Maxymuk
Part 5: Installations
15 Shipwreck with Spectator
Claudio Parmiggianis Oeuvre as a Journey through Time, Space and Ruins
Vega Tescari
16 Life Is a River in a Constant State of Flux
Isabelle Kriegs Curriculum (2004/2008)
Fabiana Senkpiel
17 Drip Drip Drip Intercede
The Leaky Thresholds of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Ashley Mason
Index
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 (Collčge 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.
