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Thoreau beyond Borders : New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer /
"Henry David Thoreau spent his life as an intellectual vagrant, jumping fences, pushing boundaries, and crossing borders. How, why, and to what end are the questions asked by contributors to this new volume of essays, whose work crosses national and disciplinary borders to think about Thoreau a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Henry David Thoreau spent his life as an intellectual vagrant, jumping fences, pushing boundaries, and crossing borders. How, why, and to what end are the questions asked by contributors to this new volume of essays, whose work crosses national and disciplinary borders to think about Thoreau anew. Deliberately invoking Thoreau's commitment to "living a border life," a life located between the world of nature and that of the polis, these varied essays explore the writer's thinking and writing as situated not merely against, but across and beyond borders and boundaries-whether geographic, temporal, or spiritual. Arguing that literary texts are governed by mediation and dialogue, lines of force becoming lines of connection that entail complex patterns and interweavings, the contributors draw on methodologies that freely combine literary and philosophical approaches with cultural and political ones-in turn moving us beyond borders. Contributors include the volume editors as well as Kristen Case, Danielle Follett, Rochelle Johnson, John J. Kucich, Daniel S. Malachuk, Henrik Otterberg, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Benjamin Pickford, David M. Robinson, Christa Holm Vogelius, and Michael C. Weisenburg"-- |
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| Notas: | "... the conferences where these essays found their first audiences ... West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century, held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, on April 7-8, 2017 ... [and] ... Thoreau from Across the Pond, the international symposium sponsored by École Normale Superieure de Lyon, the Institut d'Histoire des Representations et des Idees dans les Modernites (IHRIM, UMR 5317, affiliated with the CNRS [National Center for Academic Research]), and the Institut des Ameriques, in Lyon, France, October 18-20, 2017."--Acknowledgements. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations, map ; |
| ISBN: | 9781613768013 |