Second issue of the eighth volume of the magazine Languages, discourses and intercultures
coordinated by Dr Vicente Castañares Esmeralda, teacher-researcher at the University of Extremadura (Spain).
This summary looks at the use of water as a source of inspiration for oral and written literature, as well as the reflection of its ancestral and modern application in everyday life. It includes eight articles which address various literary eras, themes associated with axes such as: water and oral/written literature: myths, deities, legends of water, tales, short stories and novels; thermal waters and history of languages and literatures; the discourse of water in intercultural research; wild waters versus impounded waters; didactic and educational aspects of water.
Summary
Water in the story; currents of water, literary currents
Vicente Castañares Esmeralda
The apophatic remembrance of water in Samuel Beckett’s How It Is
Lassire Jean-Pascal
From reality to its representation, the movement of water in Paul Vaillant-Couturier
Dharréville Pierre
Thalassology: for an apology for the ocean
Sainson Camille
-At the water’s edge in a detective film: Port des Brumes
Seddaoui Fatima
Water, symbol of purification and memory in The Bottom of the Jar by Abdellatif Laâbi
Zahidi Ismail
Aquatic myths in literature: Virgil, Racine, Rimbaud, André Chénier
Nassoko Lassana, Diafar Issiaka
Notions of Fluidity: Images of Rain in the Stories of Kamdothi
Trumpet We Drink
Les Terrasses d’Orsol with its white water mirror
Maroub Donia.
