Bird Relics : : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau /

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Arsić, Branka,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.) :; 47 halftones, 2 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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