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Contents
- Preface
- Gayle Wurst and Christine Raguet-Bouvart: Introduction
- One: Rewriting and Rereading Canonical Texts
- Alessandro Portelli: The Republican Element: Water Imagery and
Democratic Ideology in the Age of Melville
- Leona Toker: Maule’s Well and Its Metaphoric Echoes in
Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables
- Ellen Pifer: The River and Its Current: Literary and Collective
Memory in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
- Bruce Michelson: Huck’s River: The Strange Life of an
American Symbol
- Two: Discovering New Narrative Grounds
- David Rogers: The Perversity of Water: William Faulkner and
the Aesthetics of Modernism
- Barbara Schubeler-Jillson: The Cruise of the Vanadis
Mirrorred in the Works of Edith Wharton
- Cecil Brown: ‘The Lash, the Fire, and the Depthless Water’:
James Baldwin’s Use of the ‘Coming Through’ Ritual in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Three: Reinterpreting Myths
- James I. Deutsch: Diving in Primordial Waters: Motif and
Metaphor in a Native American Creation Myth
- Francesca Orestano: Ordeal by Water: Neal, Melville and
Hawthorne between Ancient Law and Classical Myth
- Gayle Wurst: ‘The clearest thing I own’: Metaphor, Myth and
Identity in Sylvia Plath’s ‘OCEAN 1212-w’
- Bernadette Rigal-Cellard: Pebbles and Lakes, Floods and Beads:
Chippewa Water Metaphors in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks
and Love Medicine
- Arno Heller: Water as Symbol of Psychic Regeneration:
James Dickey’s Deliverance and Margaret Atwood’s
Surfacing
- Françoise Clary: ‘The Waters of My Heart’:
Myth and Belonging in Jean Toomer’s Cane
- Christine Raguet-Bouvart: That Intangible Island of
Entranced Time: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
- Notes on Contributors
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