Bird Relics
ISBN: 9780674495364
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Harvard University Press
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Branka Arsić shows that Thoreau developed a theory of vitalism in response to his brother's death. Through grieving, he came to see life as a generative force into which everything dissolves and reemerges. This reinterpretation, based on sources overlooked by critics, explains many of Thoreau's more idiosyncratic habits and obsessions.

Arsic Branka :

Branka Arsic is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.


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