Bird Relics : : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau / / Branka Arsić.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Arsić, Branka,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.) :; 47 halftones, 2 line illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: On Affirmative Reading, or The Lesson of the Chickadees --; Part I. Dyonisia, 467 BC: The Mythology of Mourning --; Part II. Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1837: The Science of Life --; Part III. Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, 1845: Epistemology of Change --; Part IV. Ossossané Village, Ontario, 1636: Acts of Recollecting --; Appendix I: Freud and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning --; Appendix II: On Thoreau’s Grave --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674495364; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674495364
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Branka Arsić.

Branka Arsic shows that Thoreau developed a theory of vitalism in response to his brother’s death. Through grieving, he came to see life as a generative force into which everything dissolves and reemerges. This reinterpretation, based on sources overlooked by critics, explains many of Thoreau’s more idiosyncratic habits and obsessions.