Bird relics : grief and vitalism in Thoreau / Branka Arsić.
Bird relics : grief and vitalism in Thoreau / Branka Arsić.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016]
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G 2017/5173
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English
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x, 455 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction: On affirmative reading, or the lesson of the chickadees -- Dyonisia, 467 BC: the mythology of mourning -- Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1837: the science of life -- Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, 1845: epistemology of change -- Ossossané Village, Ontario, 1636: acts of recolle...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016]
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Massachusetts
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[2016]
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Birds were never far from Thoreau's mind. They wing their way through his writing just as they did through his cabin on Walden Pond, summoned or dismissed at whim by his whistles. Emblematic of life, death, and nature's endless capacity for renewal, birds offer passage into the loftiest currents of Thoreau's thought. What Branka Arsić finds there...
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Bird relics : grief and vitalism in Thoreau / Branka Arsić.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/5173
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74VKVgZQmM3M
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgZQmM3M
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0674088476 (alk. paper)
9780674088474 (alk. paper)
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818.309
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991024142814002626
