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Bird Relics : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau /
Branka Arsic shows that Thoreau developed a theory of vitalism in response to his brother's death. Through grieving, he came to see life as a generative force into which everything dissolves and reemerges. This reinterpretation, based on sources overlooked by critics, explains many of Thoreau&#...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: On Affirmative Reading, or The Lesson of the Chickadees
- Part I. Dyonisia, 467 BC: The Mythology of Mourning
- Part II. Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1837: The Science of Life
- Part III. Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, 1845: Epistemology of Change
- Part IV. Ossossané Village, Ontario, 1636: Acts of Recollecting
- Appendix I: Freud and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning
- Appendix II: On Thoreau's Grave
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index