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Author : Robert Beverley Ray
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253356864
Adopting Henry David Thoreau's own compositional method, the author presents 40 brief essays from the details of Walden.
Author : Robert Beverley Ray
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253223548
and surrounded me suddenly with the scenery of winter."
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:1008221216
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.
Author : Yoshiaki Furui
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817320065
An innovative and timely examination of the concept of solitude in nineteenth-century American literature During the nineteenth century, the United States saw radical developments in media and communication that reshaped concepts of spatiality and temporality. As the telegraph, the postal system, and public transportation became commonplace, the country achieved a level of connectedness that was never possible before. At this level, physical isolation no longer equaled psychological separation from the exterior world, and as communication networks proliferated, being disconnected took on negative cultural connotations. Though solitude, and the lack thereof, is a pressing concern in today’s culture of omnipresent digital connectivity, Yoshiaki Furui shows that solitude has been a significant preoccupation since the nineteenth-century. The obsession over solitude is evidenced by many writers of the period, with consequences for many basic notions of creativity, art, and personal and spiritual fulfillment. In Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Furui examines, among other works, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Emily Dickinson’s poetry and letters, and telegraphic literature in the 1870s to identify the virtues and values these writers bestowed upon solitude in a time and place where it was being consistently threatened or devalued. Although each writer has a unique way of addressing the theme, they all aim to reclaim solitude as a positive, productive state of being that is essential to the writing process and personal identity. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach to understand modern solitude and the resulting literature, Furui seeks to historicize solitude by anchoring literary works in this revolutionary yet interim period of American communication history, while also applying theoretical insights into the literary analysis.
Author : Jacob Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520286146
The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media. By looking at early and neglected forms of sound technology, Jacob Smith seeks to create a revisionist, ecologically aware history of sound media. Delving into the history of pre-electronic media like hand-cranked gramophones, comparatively eco-friendly media artifacts such as the shellac discs that preceded the use of petroleum-based vinyl, early forms of portable technology like divining rods, and even the use of songbirds as domestic music machines, Smith builds a scaffolding of historical case studies to demonstrate how “green media archaeology” can make sound studies vibrate at an ecological frequency while opening the ears of eco-criticism. Throughout this eye-opening and timely book he makes readers more aware of the costs and consequences of their personal media consumption by prompting comparisons with non-digital, non-electronic technologies and by offering different ways in which sound media can become eco-sonic media. In the process, he forges interdisciplinary connections, opens new avenues of research, and poses fresh theoretical questions for scholars and students of media, sound studies, and contemporary environmental history.
Author : Zoltán Somhegyi,Lisa Giombini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781040017920
This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations. As increasing ecological and economic challenges question opportunities for new construction, the process of restoring, transforming, and readapting buildings for new or continued use is becoming an essential part of architectural practice. At the same time, the role of building conservation is changing from mere material preservation to being part of a broader strategy for social regeneration, eco-awareness, and inclusive urban planning. Chapters of this volume explore the complex set of considerations that inform decisions to merely preserve, accurately restore or variously reuse a building. They also look at the broader philosophical concerns such as ethical and aesthetic values, combined with ideas of heritage, history, and collective identity. Case studies on reconstruction after war, gentrification, the restoration of ancient edifices, reconstruction following the effects of climate change, and the use of technology solutions among many others, make this a timely and urgent volume. Adopting a broad transcultural perspective with contributions from five continents, the volume combines theoretical approaches with more practical, case study-based investigations and will be of great interest to upper-level students and academics working in the fields of architecture, conservation, urban design, aesthetics, and heritage management.
Author : Ken Ilgunas
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544028838
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Stationery
ISBN : NYPL:33433111689448
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031909610
Author : Terry Barkley,Richard Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 1611214815
Author Terry Barkley has gleaned archival sources, vital records, period newspaper accounts, and census rolls for everything that is known about Edmond Hotham whose sojourn at Walden Pond was the first and only time someone traveled there to emulate Thoreau's experiment in simplicity. The Other "Hermit" of Thoreau's Walden Pond is the first book-le
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Paper industry
ISBN : NYPL:33433066471883
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1796747246
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society - an account of the daily minutiae of building, planting, hunting, cooking, and, always, observing nature - and a declaration of independence from the oppressive mores of the world he left behind. Elegant, witty, and quietly searching, Walden remains the most persuasive American argument for simplicity of life clarity of conscience.
Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521424828
This review of Thoreau's classic contains a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.
Author : Ian Marshall
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820340654
In this intriguing literary experiment, Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and documents the underlying similarities between Thoreau's prose and the art of haiku. Although Thoreau would never have encountered the Japanese haiku tradition, the way in which the most important ideas in Walden find expression in the most haikulike language suggests that Thoreau at Walden Pond and the haiku master Basho at his "old pond" might have drunk at the same well. Walden and the tradition of haiku share an aesthetic that embodies ideas in natural images, dissolves boundaries between self and world, emphasizes simplicity, and honors both solitude and humble, familiar objects. Marshall examines each of these aesthetic principles and offers a relevant collection of "found" haiku. In the second part of the book, he explains his process of finding the haiku in the text, breaking down each chapter of Walden to highlight the imagery and poetic language embedded in the most powerful passages. Marshall's exploration not only provides a fresh perspective on haiku, but also sheds new light on Thoreau's much-studied text and lays the foundation for a clearer understanding of the aesthetics of American nature writing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Printing
ISBN : UOM:39015086719344