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Thoreauvian Modernities : Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon /
Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of ""pure"" nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work-how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and h...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Georgia Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Manifold Modernity of Henry D. Thoreau; PART ONE: THOREAU AND (NON)MODERNITY; Walking West, Gazing East: Planetarity on the Shores of Cape Cod; Antimodern Thoreau; Thoreau's Multiple Modernities; Thoreau, Modernity, and Nature's Seasons; An Infinite Road to the Golden Age: A Close Reading of Thoreau's "Road-that old Carlisle one" in the Late Journal (24 September 1859); PART TWO: THOREAU AND PHILOSOPHY; "Being Is the Great Explainer": Thoreau and the Ontological Turn in American Thought.
- Character and Nature: Toward an Aristotelian Understanding of Thoreau's Literary Portraits and Environmental PoeticsThoreau's Work on Myth: The Modern and the Primitive; "A Sort of Hybrid Product": Thoreau's Individualism between Liberalism and Communitarianism; PART THREE: THOREAU, LANGUAGE, AND THE WILD; Nature, Knowledge, and the Method of Thoreau's Excursions; Thoreau's Radical Empiricism: The Kalendar, Pragmatism, and Science; "The Maze of Phenomena": Perception and Particular Knowledge in Thoreau's Journal; Poetics of Thoreau's Journal and Postmodern Aesthetics.
- Fraught Ecstasy: Contemporary Encounters with Thoreau's Postpristine NatureBrute Neighbors: The Modernity of a Metaphor; "Tawny Grammar": Words in the Wild; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z.