Bird Relics : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau / Branka Arsić.
Arsić, Branka, author.
2016
B931.T44
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Title
Bird Relics : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau / Branka Arsić.
Author
Arsić, Branka, author.
ISBN
9780674495364
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674495364
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (450 p.) : 47 halftones, 2 line illustrations
Item Number
10.4159/9780674495364 doi
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B931.T44
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.309
Summary
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
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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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