Tri Tran (ed.), L’eau en Écosse / Water in Scotland

It is a common trope of nationalistic writing that water and the nation have affinities of the structural or essential sort. Like water, the nation can be perceived as a continuous flow, in the sense of a dynamic current, but one that occupies a given “bed”, and therefore reconciles stasis and moti...

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Xuất bản năm:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises,
Tác giả chính: Besson, Cyril
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Anglais
Được phát hành: Études écossaises 2023
Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt:It is a common trope of nationalistic writing that water and the nation have affinities of the structural or essential sort. Like water, the nation can be perceived as a continuous flow, in the sense of a dynamic current, but one that occupies a given “bed”, and therefore reconciles stasis and motion, across time if not space. Some see water and nation as partaking (across time and space this time) of what linguistique énonciative calls le continu, this category of uncountable nouns pertaini...