Water Imagery
Water Imagery in George Sand’s Work,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019 (2018)
EAN13 : 9781527515796.
This collection of essays highlights the importance of water imagery in the work of the renowned nineteenth-century French female author George Sand. It provides a complex picture of the polyvalent presence of water in Sand’s work that encompasses life and death imagery, ecocriticism, fluid kinship, homosocial ties, and artistic creativity.
Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s premise that the substance of water carries deep meaning, the articles in this volume explore the element of water and its symbolism in a selection of George Sand’s writings and art work, from her most famous novels (Indiana, Lélia, and Consuelo) to her later works, short stories, plays, and autobiographical writing (Teverino, Jean de la Roche, Les Maîtres sonneurs, La Reine Coax, L’Homme de neige, Le Drac, Un Hiver à Majorque, Marianne), and dendrite paintings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction (Françoise Ghillebaert)
Chapter One: Life and Death in Bodies of Water
Part 1: Drowning Imagery
Death by Water: A Triad of Ambiguity in Indiana and Lélia (Abbey Carrico)
De l’eau noire du suicide à la féerie merveilleuse de l’illusion blanche (Àngels Santa)
Part 2: Water and the Initiatory Journey
L’héroïne gothique face à l’abîme aquatique dans Indiana (1832) et Consuelo (1841) (Marilyn Mallia)
Eaux courantes, sublime et passion dans Jean de la Roche (Corinne Fournier Kiss)
Chapter Two: Relationships in Aquatic Contexts
Part 1: Ecocriticism and Human Relationships with Nature
Water Worlds: An Ecocritical Approach to “La Reine Coax” (Annie K. Smart)
Watery Prison or Paradise: Isolation and Relation in Un hiver à Majorque (Rachel Corkle)
Part 2: Homosocial Relationships and Liquid Metaphors of Kinship
Eau et homosociabilité dans Teverino (Françoise Ghillebaert)
Hospitality and Fluid Kinship in Indiana (Phillip Griffith)
Chapter Three: Water as a Source of Artistic Creation
Part 1: Water and Tears in the Arts
Watercolours and Dendrites, Lakes and Seascapes: Water in George Sand’s Visual Art (Emilie Sitzia)
Larmes et apprentissage dans l’œuvre de George Sand (Lara Popic)
Part 2: Water and Authorial Creativity Water
Symbolism in Histoire de ma vie and Marianne: Catholic Narratology of Atonement (Nancy Ann Watanabe)
Symboles et spectacles de l’eau marine dans Le Drac (Nicola Pasqualicchio)
Contributors
Abstracts
List of Primary Works and Characters
Responsable : Françoise J Ghillebaert
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2/08/2019