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x, 259 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
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"... 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 Supérieure de Lyon, the Institut d'Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM, UMR 5317, affiliated with the CNRS [National Center for Academic Research]), and the Institut des Amériques, in Lyon, France, October 18-20, 2017."--Acknowledgements. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
An Imperfect Indian Wisdom: Thoreau, Ecocultural Contact, And The Spirit Of Place / John J. Kucich -- Cape Cod's Transnational Bodies / Christa Holm Vogelius -- Beyond The Borders Of Time: Thoreau And The "Ante-Pilgrim History" Of The New World / Michael C. Weisenburg -- Making The Invisible Visible: Thoreau's Texts And/As Mapping Practices / Julien Negre -- Rhetoric Of Empire And Poetic Borderlands In Thoreau's "Walking" / Francois Specq -- Opening Walden / Henrik Otterberg -- Materialities Of Thought: Botanical Geography And The Curation Of Resilience In Susan Fenimore Cooper And Henry David Thoreau / Rochelle L. Johnson -- "A Crash Is Apt To Grate Agreeably On Our Ears": Thoreau And Dissonance / Danielle Follett -- Beyond Temporal Borders: The Music Of Thoreau's Kalendar / Kristen Case -- "Wider Than Our Views Of It": Thoreau's Universalism / Daniel S. Malachuk -- Cape Cod, Literature, And The Illocality Of Thinking About Capital / Benjamin Pickford -- Between "That Fartherest Western Way" And "The University Of The West": Thoreau's Dialectic Of Reform / Sandra Harbert Petrulionis -- Thoreau: Crossing To The Sacred / David M. Robinson -- Counter Frictions: Thoreau And The Integral Commons / Laura Dassow Walls. |
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Boundaries in literature -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. (OCoLC)fst00029125
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Boundaries in literature. (OCoLC)fst00837088
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Postcolonialism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01073035
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Specq, François, 1965- editor.
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Walls, Laura Dassow, editor.
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Nègre, Julien, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781625345554 hardcover |
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1625345550 hardcover |
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9781625345561 paperback |
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1625345569 paperback |
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9781613768013 electronic book |
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9781613768020 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
40030364608 |
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