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Literature

Books:

Bachelard, G. (1983). Water and dreams: An essay on the imagination of matter. Dallas: Pegasus Foundation.

Cassuto, D. N. (2001). Dripping dry: Literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Duncan, D. J. (2001). My story as told by water: Confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Gunkel, H., & Hanson, K. C. (2001). Water for a thirsty land: Israelite literature and religion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Reid, W. (1996). Rhetoric of a river: Tracing language and change. In S. Tchudi (Ed.), Change in the American West: Exploring the human dimension (pp. 87-105). Reno, NV: U of Nevada P.

Roche, J. J. (1895). Ballads of blue water and other poems. Boston ; New York: Houghton, Mifflin.

Stovall, L. (Ed.). (1994). Head/waters. Hillsboro, Or.: Blue Heron Pub.

White, J. (1994). Talking on the water: Conversations about nature and creativity. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Wurst, G., & Raguet-Bouvart, C. (1998). Sounding the depths: Water as metaphor in North American literatures. Liège, Belgium: Liège Language and Literature, English Department, Université de Liège.

Articles:

Bauer, M. D. (1992). Water and women: Ellen Gilchrist explores two life sources. Louisiana Literature: A Review of Literature and Humanities, 7(2), 82-90.

Friedman, N. (1955). The waters of annihilation: Double vision in To the Lighthouse. ELH, 22(1), 61-79.

Harris, K. M. (1970). Sun and water imagery in Richard II: Its dramatic function. Shakespeare Quarterly, 21(2), 157-165.

Landrum, G. W. (1941). Imagery of water in The Faerie Queene. ELH, 8(3), 198-213.

Oumhani, C. (1986). Water in V. S. Pritchett's art of revealing. Journal of the Short Story in English, 6, 75-91.

Schweitzer, R. (1989). Troubled water: The wet death image as an Anglo-American response to the Great War. Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal, 6(2), 5-24.

Scrafford, B. L. (1987). Water and stone: The confluence of textual imagery in Seize the Day. Saul Bellow Journal, 6(2), 64-70.

Webb, T. (1988). The role of water imagery in Uncle Tom's Children. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 34(1), 5-16.

 
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