Bird Relics : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau / Branka Arsić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arsić, Branka, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief.

Life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.) : 47 halftones, 2 line illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Branka Arsic 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: On Affirmative Reading, or The Lesson of the Chickadees

Part I. Dyonisia, 467 BC: The Mythology of Mourning

Part II. Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1837: The Science of Life

Part III. Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, 1845: Epistemology of Change

Part IV. Ossossané Village, Ontario, 1636: Acts of Recollecting

Appendix I: Freud and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning

Appendix II: On Thoreau’s Grave

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-49536-5

OCLC:

945740176