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Breaking the Waves

Water (issues) in contemporary verbal and visual arts
Authors: Roelens, Nathalie; Erchadi, Armand;

Breaking the Waves

Abstract

Le présent ouvrage montre comment la littérature et les arts dévoilent des propriétés insoupçonnées de l’eau. Les mythes et légendes que l’eau et la mer ont engendrés (le Déluge, les voyages d’Ulysse et d’Énée, les sirènes, l’Océan comme vieillard, Protée ou Nérée, Ophélie, la baleine blanche) retentissent tel un réservoir de formes et de thèmes dont les arts verbaux et visuels actuels se sont emparés. Les textes ici rassemblés, signés aussi bien par des spécialistes renommés que des jeunes chercheurs, des universitaires que des créateurs, ont le mérite de jeter un regard nouveau sur une substance dont l’évidence a fait oublier la valeur dans nos vies, en construisant une essentielle réflexion écologique. Imprédictible et indomptable, mouvante ou stagnante, l’eau, comme défi représentatif, reçoit ici une attention qui lui est due et redevient eau-de-vie.

This volume shows how literature and art reveal unsuspected properties of water. The myths and legends that water and the sea have generated (the Flood, the voyages of Ulysses and Aeneas, the mermaids, the ocean as an old man, Proteus or Nereus, Ophelia, the white whale) resound like a reservoir of forms and themes that today’s verbal and visual arts have seized upon. The texts gathered here, signed by renowned specialists as well as young researchers, academics and creators, have the merit of taking a fresh look at a substance whose value in our lives has been forgotten, and help build an essential ecological reflection. Unpredictable and untamable, moving or stagnant, water, as a representative challenge, receives here the attention it deserves, and becomes once again an eau-de-vie.

Keywords

water, literature, arts

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