International audienceTaking the opposite from the standard critical approach that dismisses Thoreau’s numerous references to the Ancient World as a gratuitous display of classical scholarship encumbering his narrative whether it be Walden or A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers, this essay aims to legitimize the author’s choice by showing that far from being irrelevant cultural and rhetorical frills and furbelows, such learned allusions actually define an essential frame of reference giving form and meaning to Thoreau’s literary and philosophical enterprise. In the eyes of the author, who defines himself as “a good Greek” and spiritual heir to such agricultural writers as Cato, Varro, and Columella, the Ancient World is neither old n...
In American society, our lives, consisted of professional and familial obligations, bind us to our c...
Curious for a cultural phenomenon rooted in self-reliance, Transcendentalism first flowered in the l...
A More Perfect Indian Wisdom radically re-envisions the work of Henry D. Thoreau while also examini...
The American naturalist, philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) lived and wrote in a...
This essay questions a critical consensus about Thoreau\u27s first book, A Week on the Concord and M...
While Thoreau has sometimes been represented as a provincial figure who traveled relatively little, ...
In lieu of an abstract, here is the article\u27s first paragraph: Henry David Thoreau’s claim to be ...
Thoreau is read chiefly as the author of the only two books he published during his life, A Week on ...
In the second paragraph of Walden, Thoreau explains that he is going to give a sincere and an honest...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77)Although much critical acclaim has been extended to...
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. ...
Henry David Thoreau\u27s pictorial writing made use of various modes of the picturesque, including t...
One of the American myths, currently obsolete and mostly forgotten, is a vision of America as an Arc...
0-9741158-9-4The following essays reflect my central interest in the literature and visual arts of A...
Massachusetts and spent nearly all his days there until his death on May 6, 1862. He lived a relativ...
In American society, our lives, consisted of professional and familial obligations, bind us to our c...
Curious for a cultural phenomenon rooted in self-reliance, Transcendentalism first flowered in the l...
A More Perfect Indian Wisdom radically re-envisions the work of Henry D. Thoreau while also examini...
The American naturalist, philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) lived and wrote in a...
This essay questions a critical consensus about Thoreau\u27s first book, A Week on the Concord and M...
While Thoreau has sometimes been represented as a provincial figure who traveled relatively little, ...
In lieu of an abstract, here is the article\u27s first paragraph: Henry David Thoreau’s claim to be ...
Thoreau is read chiefly as the author of the only two books he published during his life, A Week on ...
In the second paragraph of Walden, Thoreau explains that he is going to give a sincere and an honest...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77)Although much critical acclaim has been extended to...
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. ...
Henry David Thoreau\u27s pictorial writing made use of various modes of the picturesque, including t...
One of the American myths, currently obsolete and mostly forgotten, is a vision of America as an Arc...
0-9741158-9-4The following essays reflect my central interest in the literature and visual arts of A...
Massachusetts and spent nearly all his days there until his death on May 6, 1862. He lived a relativ...
In American society, our lives, consisted of professional and familial obligations, bind us to our c...
Curious for a cultural phenomenon rooted in self-reliance, Transcendentalism first flowered in the l...
A More Perfect Indian Wisdom radically re-envisions the work of Henry D. Thoreau while also examini...