Postscripts : Retrospections on Time and Place /

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Walt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa V...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Root, Robert L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Root, Robert L.
Root, Robert L. > Travel.
Root, Robert L. > Homes and haunts.
Time > Philosophy.
Place (Philosophy)
Homes.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Temps > Philosophie.
Lieu (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : words in the wind (the Green Mountains, Vermont)
  • To think of time (the Habitation, Nova Scotia)
  • The pattern of life indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine)
  • The everlastingly great look of the sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts)
  • Here is New York (New York, New York)
  • Anasazi (the Four Corners)
  • Knowing where you've been (the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana)
  • Shore lines (the Great Lakes)
  • Of trees and time (Warren Woods, Michigan)
  • Malabar Farm (Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio)
  • Terra cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine)
  • Time and tide (Acadia National Park, Maine)
  • Epilogue : postscript to a postscript to "the ring of time" (Sarasota, Florida).

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