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and `Sartre and the Lure of Feminine Slime' (unpublished article).
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2 John Lechte, `Gaston Bachelard', Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity ( London & New York: Routledge , 1994 ), 3 -6 (3 and 4 respectively).
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3 Catherine Wilson, `Gaston Bachelard', The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich ( Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1995 ), 74 .
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4 Daniel Russell, `Preface', Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language and the Cosmos, trans. Daniel Russell ( Pittsburgh: Beacon Press , 1969 ), vi, vi and vii respectively (originally published as La Poétique de la rêverie by Presses Universitaires de France, 1960).
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5 Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter, trans. Edith R. Farrell ( Dallas: Pegasus , 1999 ).
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6 Joanne H. Stroud, `Foreword', Water, i -x (viii and x respectively).
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7 Stroud, `Foreword', Water, ix .
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8 Bachelard, La Poétique, 32 .
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9 Ibid. , 34.
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10 Gaston Bachelard, L'Eau et les rêves: Essai sur l'imagination de la matière ( Paris: Brodard & Taupin , 2001 ), 18 . (Originally published as L'Eau et les rêves: Essai sur l'imagination de la matière, Paris, 1942.)
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11 I am using the term `reliability' to describe the perceived capacity of speech and writing to guarantee a fixed meaning with an anchor in the `real'.
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12 Bachelard, L'Eau, 16 .
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13 Bachelard, La Poétique, 125 .
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14 Bachelard, L'Eau, 16 .
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15 Richard Kearney, `The Poetical Imagination (Bachelard)', The Poetics of Imagining: Modern to Postmodern ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press , 1998 ). (Originally published by Harper Collins Academic, 1991).
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16 Bachelard, L'Eau, 19 .
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17 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth and Coleridge, eds R. L. Brett and A. R. Jones ( London & New York: Routledge , 1999 ). The poems `The Idle Shepherd Boys' and `The Fountain' illustrate this point well. See 164 -167 and 194 -196 respectively.
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18 Bachelard, L'Eau, 65 .
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19 Bachelard, La Poétique, 15 .
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20 Bachelard, L'Eau, 26 and 52 respectively.
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21 Bachelard, La Poétique, 26 -27.
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22 Bachelard, L'Eau, 8 and 43 respectively.
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23 Bachelard, La Poétique, 53 .
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24 Bachelard states that `On vivra plus sûrement en anima en approfondissant la rêverie, en aimant la rêverie, la rêverie des eaux surtout, dans le grand repos des eaux dormantes. Ô belle eau sans péché qui renouvelle les puretés d'anima dans la rêverie idéalisante!' See Bachelard, La Poétique, 59 and 26 respectively.
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25 Bachelard, L'Eau, 17 .
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26 Bachelard, La Poétique, 80 .
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27 Bachelard, L'Eau, 173 and 147 respectively.
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28 I describe this example as disturbing because, although `Melanesia' is just a region of the West Pacific (to the south of Micronesia and the west of Polynesia), Melanesian waters have been placed in direct opposition to immaculate and virginal waters.
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29 The `corrupted' character of sea water is presented as an indisputable fact. For example, Bachelard states that `La suprématie de l'eau terrestre sur l'eau marine n'a naturellement pas échappé aux mythologies modernes.' Bachelard, L'Eau, 175 .
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30 Bachelard, La Poétique, 28 .
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31 Bachelard, L'Eau, 59
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32 See Jean-Paul Sartre's, `De la qualité comme révélatrice de l'Être', in L'Être et le néant: Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique ( Paris: Librairie Gallimard , 1957 ), 690 -708 (originally published as L'Être et le néant, 1943).
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33 Bachelard, L'Eau, 13 .
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34 Bachelard, La Poétique, 12 .
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35 Ibid. , 125.
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36 Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Être, 457 (ex 387-8).
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37 Bachelard, La Poétique, 144 .
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38 Kearney, `The Poetical Imagination (Bachelard)', 107 .
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39 Sartre, L'Être, 700 -701.
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40 Bachelard, L'Eau, 21 .
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41 Sartre, L'Être, 609 .
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42 Bachelard, L'Eau et les rêves, 108 .
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43 Stroud, `Foreword', Water, viii .
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44 Bachelard, La Poétique, 29 .
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45 Bachelard, L'Eau, 174 .
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See Daniel Russell, Translator's Preface (1969 ), Poetics, vii .
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47 Bachelard, L'Eau, 131 .