When I came to die : process and prophecy in Thoreau's vision of dying / Audrey Raden.
When I came to die : process and prophecy in Thoreau's vision of dying / Audrey Raden.
When I came to die : process and prophecy in Thoreau's vision of dying / Audrey Raden.
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]
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G 2017/6570
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English
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xii, 156 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: anticipation as prophecy -- 1. Figure in the mist: the death of John Thoreau, Jr. -- 2. "I did not cry": the sentimental narrative -- 3. Blood and seeds: the heroic narrative -- 4. Artoosoqu' and the buttong: from inanimate matter to mystical state -- 5. "As long as she cracks she hold...
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]
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Massachusetts
Date Published
[2017]
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"Scholars have long considered the elegiac characteristics of Thoreau's work. Yet few have explored how his personal views on death and dying influenced his philosophies and writings. In beautiful prose, Audrey Raden places Thoreau's views of death and dying at the center of his work, contending that it is crucial to consider the specific historica...
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When I came to die : process and prophecy in Thoreau's vision of dying / Audrey Raden.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/6570
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74VKVGV7RqGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGV7RqGO
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ISBN
1625342403 (softcover : alk. paper)
9781625342393 (hardcover : alk. paper)
162534239X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781625342409 (softcover : alk. paper)
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818.309
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991024152807102626
