The Voices of Water: Intermedial Blue Eco-Stories

Is there a possible genealogy of old and multifaceted eco-stories of water? And if it exists, when did the first forms of ecological awareness appear? Did these forms elaborate values and perspectives that can be worthy of transformation and reintegration into today’s and tomorrow’s societies which are the main focus of our inquiry? The volume explores how, since the early modern age, the voices of water have been interpreted and used in different ways and through different media. All the intermedial stories which are referred to in this issue deal with water and have been chosen and analysed within an ecocritical framework by the authors of the articles, that is with a specific environmental awareness and ecological sensibility.