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1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely. Contributors from the United States and Europe explore Thoreau's modernity and give a much-needed reassessment of his work in a global context. The first of three sections, ""Thoreau and (Non)Modernity, "" views Thoreau as a social thinker who set himself again. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. |
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Civilization, Modern, in literature.
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Civilization, Modern, in literature. |
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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Transcendentalism (New England) |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Specq, François, 1965-
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Walls, Laura Dassow.
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Granger, Michel, 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thoreauvian modernities. Athens ; London : University of Georgia Press, ©2013 9780820344287 (DLC) 2012024219 (OCoLC)792884038 |
| ISBN |
9780820344782 (electronic book) |
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0820344788 (electronic book) |
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9780820344287 |
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0820344281 |
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9780820344294 |
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082034429X |
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