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Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing /

Early in Thoreau's career, he became obsessed with the problem of getting to be at home in the world. This ambitious book relates that obsession to his way of fostering at-homeness: "inscribing" himself not only through words but through such occupations as the making of books, houses...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Garber, Frederick (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Words, Institutions, Hierarchies
  • 2 Writing, Subtext, Scene
  • 3 Inscribing
  • 4 Autographical Acts
  • 5 A Space for Saddleback
  • 6 Writing Home
  • 7 A Sense of Hierarchy
  • 8 Origins and Ends
  • Notes
  • Index.