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Oltean, Roxana. "'Language ... Without Metaphor'." JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 1, no. 2 (2020): 267–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v1i2.123.

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Henry David Thoreau has been celebrated for his observation of the natural world. While noting Thoreau's skills of observation in relation to the natural world and his responsiveness to sensory experience, scholars have, however, tended to privilege sight over sound. Even though Thoreau was recognized by musicians such as Charles Ives and John Cage for having an exceptionally fine ear for the symphonies of nature, sound still remains a neglected aspect of Thoreau's Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. This article is a corrective to this status quo, as it reads Walden as a transmedial project in whi

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Bristow, Tom. "International Regionalism as American-Australian Dialogue: William James and Henry David Thoreau in John Kinsella’s Jam Tree Gully Poems." Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) 2 (April 9, 2013): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.2.10596.

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Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854) is America’s nineteenth century scriptural call to establish the foundations of nationhood. The epic event of America underwritten by English literature, politics and economics, alongside the idea to self-realise anew and afresh is pregnant with Transcendentalist notions of self-reliance: the triumph of principles and latent convictions that constitute enlightenment within the self. In Jam Tree Gully Poems (2011) poet John Kinsella mimics this experimental temperate consciousness to outline degrees of freedom that are yoked to a satiric

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Celarent, Barbara. "Walden; or, Life in the Woods. By Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. Pp. 357." American Journal of Sociology 115, no. 2 (2009): 649–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/648657.

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Jajtner, Tomáš. "“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it”: The Concept of Economy (of Nature) in Thoreau’s Walden or Life in the Woods." Ostrava Journal of English Philology 13, no. 2 (2022): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0011.

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The present article investigates the notion of economy (of nature) in Thoreau’s Walden or Life in the Woods (1854); it introduces the context of coining the concept of economy of nature, presents the challenges of exploring nature in Romantic thought, and finally deals with Thoreau’s concept of “economy” as discussed in the first chapter of his opus magnum. Despite its historical grounding in the Romantic tradition and in the tradition of American Transcendentalism, Thoreau’s idea of “economy” represents a remarkably fresh version of a sustainable lifestyle, combining scientific observation wi

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GROSS, ROBERT A. "The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies in a Wider World." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 3 (2000): 373–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875851006437.

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Few American writers have been so rooted in a single place as Henry David Thoreau. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen miles west of Boston, Thoreau spent nearly all his short life, some forty-four years, in the vicinity of his native town – “the most estimable place in all the world” he deemed it – with only brief sojourns beyond New England. Like many of his contemporaries, he did try out the big city, living close to Manhattan in 1843, an aspiring writer, age twenty-six, with hopes of a literary career. But he quickly recoiled from the urban scene. “I don't like the city better, the mor

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ALLEN, THOMAS. "Clockwork Nation: Modern Time, Moral Perfectionism and American Identity in Catharine Beecher and Henry Thoreau." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 1 (2005): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805009254.

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The economy of time, and our obligation to spend every hour for some useful end, are what few minds properly realize. Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854)In his seminal 1967 essay “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” E. P. Thompson codified the theory that modern life, characterized by capitalism and industry, would not be possible without the regulating, organizing, and disci

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Smith, Laura. "Henry David Thoreau, Walden Woods, and an Aesthetics of Garden." Journal of Scottish Thought 9, no. 1 (2017): 124–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/jst.42.

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Liu, Qin. "Animals in Walden." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 3 (2017): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n3p43.

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Henry David Thoreau is a great American writer of transcendentalism and the pioneer of modern environmentalism. Being an ardent lover of nature, he devoted his entire life to studying the relationship between man and nature, and bequeathed a legacy of works in this field. He believed that nature was the symbol of spirit, and had a far-reaching influence on man and his character, and human beings should live harmoniously with nature for the long sustainable development. In Walden which is his masterpiece He endows the animals with human characteristics. Thereupon, Thoreau often describes the si

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McKelvey, Seth. "“But one kind” of Life." Nineteenth-Century Literature 70, no. 4 (2016): 448–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2016.70.4.448.

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Seth McKelvey, “‘But one kind’ of Life: Thoreau’s Subjective Theory of Value in Walden” (pp. 448–472) Literary scholars generally take for granted Henry David Thoreau’s hostility to market exchange in Walden (1854). I argue, however, that Thoreau anticipates the subjective theory of value and the related concept of diminishing marginal utility, offering glimpses of ideas that would not be formalized in economics until after his death but that should nevertheless align him with a long lineage of free market thinkers. Thoreau does not reject the marketplace as a means to achieve his own best int

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Curtis, K. "The Virtue of Thoreau: Biography, Geography, and History in Walden Woods." Environmental History 15, no. 1 (2010): 31–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emq005.

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Miller, Barbara Stoler. "Presidential Address: Contending Narratives—The Political Life of the Indian Epics." Journal of Asian Studies 50, no. 4 (1991): 783–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2058541.

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Unlike edward cameron dimock, Henry David Thoreau never traveled to India, but he imagined Yankee merchant ships transporting ice blocks from Walden Pond to New Orleans and Calcutta, where the pure Walden water would mingle with the sacred water of the Ganges. Less romantically, one can imagine the Walden ice mingling with British gin and tonic in clubs of the East India Company. In our own time, Ed Dimock has brought America and India together in more significant ways. I'm delighted that he is in New Orleans today—honoring him seems a wonderful way of celebrating ourselves on this fiftieth an

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Jiang, Lina, and Jingdong Zhong. "Short Study on Ecological Pictures in Walden." Frontiers in Sustainable Development 4, no. 5 (2024): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/tevwg432.

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Walden is a literary masterpiece written by American writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), which records his living alone in Walden Pond, far away from money-obsessed society, embracing the simple life of nature with his heart, and demonstrating the harmonious ecological beauty of Walden Pond. In this novel, Thoreau vividly shows the harmonious and interdependent relationship between man and nature through the ecological pictures of the delicious evening and red squirrel in the Walden Pond, and emphasizes the unique spiritual value given by nature to human beings. This paper attempts to use

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Fauziyah, Umi Nur, and Elly Suhartini. "Asceticism as a Driving Factor of Marriage: Study of Marriage Syar'i Hijab Student." Jurnal ENTITAS SOSIOLOGI 8, no. 1 (2019): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/jes.v8i1.16642.

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Asceticism is the desire to be blessed to be closer to the creator. Asceticism can be a motivation for Marriage at a young age. Marriage is often interpreted as something very crucial for humans. This study aims to determine the reasons for marriages conducted by Shari hooded female students by using Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman's social construction theory. This study uses qualitative research methods with a constructivist approach. The results showed that asceticism was the main factor causing marriages among Shari veiled female students. Other factors are obedience to parents, obedien

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Smith, L. "Restoring Walden Woods and the Idyll of Thoreau I: From Literary Landscape to Politicized Landscape." Ecological Restoration 32, no. 1 (2014): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/er.32.1.78.

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Chances, Ellen. "Andrei Bitov's “Zhizn' v Vetrenuiu pogodu”: The Creative Process in Life and Literature." Slavic Review 50, no. 2 (1991): 400–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500214.

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Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden," wrote about people leading "lives of quiet desperation." Russian literature is filled with examples of people who cannot break out of the paralysis of selfimprisonment and who are deadened to life by their addiction to habit. In "Zhizn' v vetrenuiu pogodu" ["Life in Windy Weather"] Andrei Bitov explores the process, in life and literature, of escape from those ossified forms of existence and art. He plots the path toward creative living and creative writing. For him, one cannot divide the creative process in life from the creative process in literature.

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Suchostawska, Laura. "Metaphorical Construals of Nature in Thoreau’s Writings." Anglica Wratislaviensia 55 (October 18, 2017): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.55.8.

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The article investigates how the concept of nature is metaphorically construed in the writings of Henry David Thoreau, one of the earliest and most influential nature writers. The analysis has been inspired by insights from cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics, especially Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Fauconnier and Turner’s Blending Theory. Several different metaphorical construals of the concept of nature appear in Thoreau’s writings which have been examined in this study, including Walden, The Maine Woods, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, a selection

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Fink, Steven. "Building America: Henry Thoreau and the American Home." Prospects 11 (October 1986): 326–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300005433.

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When henry thoreau published Walden in 1854, the title page was illustrated with an engraving of the modest dwelling he had built by the pond. (See Figure 1.) While the cabin seems unexceptional, it was an appropriate focal point for the book, a visible emblem of the independent, self-determined life he had made for himself and which he advocated for every American. Recognizing that the built environment expresses fundamental personal, social, and economic values, Thoreau saw that Americans in particular needed to build with a deliberation commensurate to the larger endeavor of defining their

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Fogarty, Robert S. "“Behold a White Horse!”: The Communal Journey." Prospects 10 (October 1985): 461–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300004191.

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Writing in his diary in August 1842, Thoreau noted that “there is much to console the wayward traveller upon the dustiest and dullest road” because the “path his feet travel is so perfectly typical of human life.” As a lifelong journeyer and seeker he often used the metaphor embedded in his diary notation for that summer day: “Now climbing the highest mountains, now descending into the lowest vales. From the summits we see the heavens and the horizon, from the vales we look up to the heights again.” Thoreau sought utopia in nature and in himself at Walden by journeying westward a short distanc

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Smith, L. "Restoring Walden Woods and the Idyll of Thoreau II: A Recent Historical Tracing of Changing and Renegotiated Restoration Goals." Ecological Restoration 32, no. 1 (2014): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/er.32.1.86.

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BYUNG-SEONG LEE. "A Study on Existential Life and Self-Education of Henry David Thoreau Included in Walden." Journal of Educational Idea 24, no. 3 (2010): 221–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17283/jkedi.2010.24.3.221.

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Moskowitz, Alex. "Economic Imperception; or, Reading Capital on the Beach with Thoreau." American Literary History 32, no. 2 (2020): 221–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaa008.

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Abstract This essay argues that throughout his oeuvre, Henry David Thoreau develops a theory of sensory perception that comes to its literary culmination in Cape Cod (1865). I argue that Thoreau’s thinking on the senses demonstrates that the senses are a product of historical development. In Cape Cod, Thoreau is particularly interested in how economic interest has trained the senses to become structurally incapable of sensing the death that is a necessary part of the commodity form and social life in general—similar to what Karl Marx in Capital (1867) would describe as “dead labor.” This essay

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Tag, S. "'Forest Life and Forest Trees: Thoreau and John S. Springer in the Maine Woods'." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2, no. 1 (1994): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/2.1.77.

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Rothman, William. "In Pursuit of 'Pursuits of Happiness'." Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 7 (June 19, 2019): 20–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/cjcs.vi7.4284.

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A year after the publication in 1969 of Must We Mean What We Say?, Stanley Cavell observes in the elegant Preface he wrote for the 2001 edition, the effect on him, as he put it, “of putting the book behind me, or perhaps I should say, of having it to stand behind, freed me for I suppose the most productive, or palpably so, nine months of my life, in which I recast the salvageable and necessary material of my Ph.D. dissertation as the opening three parts of what would become The Claim of Reason and completed small books on film (The World Viewed) and Thoreau (The Senses of Walden). I consider t

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Kyrylo, Ihoshev. "CONCEPT OF SIMPLE LIFE BY H. D.THOREAU." LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, no. 13 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.1318.

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In this study, the author examines the concept of “simple life” in the work “Walden; or Life in the Woods” by H. D. Thoreau in the context of transcendental philosophy. The article gives a brief overview of R. Emerson’s works on transcendentalism (which were the foundations of Thoreau’s own philosophical and aesthetic views) and the work of S. Alexander on the philosophy of “simple life” by H. Thoreau. It is determined that one of the main concepts of transcendentalism is “self-reliance”. As a result of the study, it was determined that H. Thoreau’s “simple life” is a practical realization of

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-, Sakshi Tyagi. "The Impact of Eastern philosophy and Thought on American Poets." International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research 5, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.7834.

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Many American poets of the 19th and 20th centuries were influenced by Eastern philosophy. Poets embraced oriental thought & spirituality. These themes are reflected in their poetry through symbolism, references and imagery. These poets find peace, solace and shelter in eastern philosophy. They searched immensely for the solution to their problems but found materialism and brokenness. T.S.Eliot, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau expressed their views which resonate with eastern philosophy and spirituality. T.S. Eliot found peace in the Upanishad and the teachings of

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Litvinova, Maryna, and Kyrylo Ihoshev. "THE CAUSES OF AUTHOR-NARRATOR’S SOLITUDE IN N. D. THOREAU’S “WALDEN”." LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, 2018, 97–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2018.11.97102.

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In the article the authors consider the problem of solitude in the H. D. Thoreau’s work “Walden, or Life in the Woods” in the context of transcendental philosophy. The main principles of this philosophical trend are described and analyzed. Philosophic and aesthetic views of the American philosopher are analyzed. In this work, a brief review of the works of predecessors on transcendentalism and Thoreau’s literary heritage is made. With the help of these theoretical and practical findings, the reasons for the author-narrator’s solitude in H. D. Thoreau’s book “Walden, or Life in the Woods” and h

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Popescu, Andreea. "Nostalgia of the Beginnings." Papers in Arts and Humanities 1, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.52885/pah.v1i1.18.

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Henry David’s Thoreau book Walden recreates in a literary form the period that the author spent in the woods near Walden Pond. Being a transcendentalist influenced by Emerson’s philosophy, Thoreau reiterates the essential role that nature has in the spiritual and moral development of man. In Walden the author describes a return to a primordial age in which man lived in a state of wonder before the beauty of the universe and in a permanent communion with it. The sacredness of nature is rendered through ritual gestures that accompany man on his road to revelation. Thus, the period of time spent

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Ackerman, Alan. "Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism." American Literature, November 15, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10341706.

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Abstract Catharine E. Beecher’s 1841 A Treatise on Domestic Economy laid the groundwork for the American environmental canon, including Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau and Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson. In conversation with other nineteenth-century American writers, Beecher promoted a way of thinking about nature as home and illuminated current usage of energy and economy as opposing, gendered metaphors. Situating daily life in a new energy regime, Beecher was an early theorizer of fossil fuels, positing domestic economy as a corrective to the political economy of industrial capit

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Schlotterbeck, Jesse. "Non-Urban Noirs: Rural Space in Moonrise, On Dangerous Ground, Thieves’ Highway, and They Live by Night." M/C Journal 11, no. 5 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.69.

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Despite the now-traditional tendency of noir scholarship to call attention to the retrospective and constructed nature of this genre— James Naremore argues that film noir is best regarded as a “mythology”— one feature that has rarely come under question is its association with the city (2). Despite the existence of numerous rural noirs, the depiction of urban space is associated with this genre more consistently than any other element. Even in critical accounts that attempt to deconstruct the solidity of the noir genre, the city is left as an implicit inclusion, and the country, an implict exc

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