Water, culture, and politics in Germany and the American West / edited by Susan C. Anderson & Bruce H. Tabb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Susan C.

Tabb, Bruce H., 1959-

Series:

German life and civilization ; vol. 36.

German life and civilization ; vol. 36

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Water--Social aspects.

Water.

Germany--Civilization.

Germany.

Civilization.

Water--Social aspects--Germany.

Water--Social aspects--West (U.S.).

Water in literature.

Water and civilization.

West (U.S.)--Civilization.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

vi, 310 pages: illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2001]

Language Note:

Chiefly in English with one contribution in German.

Contents:

Introduction: The Rhetorical Power of Water / Susan C. Anderson 1

Part 1 Imagining Water

"It's a Nice Day for a Canoe Ride": An Essay on Ecological Issues in Contemporary Culture / John E. Davidson 11

From Clouds to Swamps: Cultural Dissolutions in Science and on Screen from Humboldt to Herzog / Marton Marko 29

The Jeweled Net of Water in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers without End / W. Scott McLean 51

Rescue from Kesey's "Great Notion": The Healing Power of Water in Seghers, Frischmuth, and Bachmann / Karen R. Achberger 79

Die Zahmung der grausamen Frau: Seelenlose Wasserkreaturen und ihre Welt des Imaginaren / Sabine Wilke 93

Of Water Sprites, Drowned Maidens, and Omnipotent Fish: On Some (Mis)Representations of Water in German Postromantic Literary Texts / Siegfried Mews 123

Water, Exploration, and Liberation in the Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / Ralph W. Buechler 141

Part 2 Channeling Water

Between Scarcity and Abundance: Water and Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Prussia / Rita Gudermann 161

The Correction of the Upper Rhine in the Nineteenth Century: Modernizing Society and State by Large-Scale Water Engineering / Christoph Bernhardt 183

Remodeling "Father Rhine": The Case of Mannheim 1825-1914 / Dieter Schott 203

Water for Wine and Scenery, Coal and European Unity: Canalization of the Mosel River, 1950-1964 / Sandra Chaney 227

Water Witching: Germans and the Magical Tradition on the Prairie Plains / Dennis Domer 253

To Water the Valley: Irrigation, Canals, and the Alexander Commission / Jeff R. Bremer 271

Hydraulic Cities: The Urbanization of the Mid-Columbia Plateau / Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0820449466

OCLC:

43286679