Live deep and suck all the marrow of life : H.D. Thoreau's literary legacy / edited by Maria Laura Arce, Eulalia Pinero Gil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arce, Maria Laura, editor.

Piñero Gil, Eulalia C., editor.

Series:

Series in literary studies.

Series in literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Influence.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages).

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware ; Malaga, Spain : Vernon Press, [2020]

Summary:

Considered to be one of America's great intellectuals, Thoreau was deeply engaged in some of the most important social debates of his day including slavery, the emergence of consumerism, the American Dream, living on the frontier, the role of the government and the ecological mind. As testimony to Thoreau's remarkable intellectual heritage, his autobiography, essays and poetry still continue to inspire and attract readers from across the globe.As a celebration of H.D. Thoreau's Bicentenary (1817-1862), this edited volume offers a re-reading of his works and reconsiders the influence that his transcendentalist philosophy has had on American culture and literature. Taking an intertextual perspective, the contributors to this volume seek to reveal Thoreau's influence on American Literature and Arts from the 19th century onwards and his fundamental contribution to the development of 20th century American Literature. In particular, this work presents previously unconsidered intertextual analyses of authors that have been influenced by Thoreau's writings. This volume also reveals how Thoreau's influence can be read across literary genres and even seen in visual manifestations such as cinema.

Contents:

Introduction: "Live deep and suck all the marrow of life" : H.D. Thoreau's literary legacy / María Laura Arce Álvarez, Eulalia Pin̋ero Gil

Thoreau's inner geographies : symmetries, asymmetriesand triskelion / Ascunción López-Varela

On the page on the stage : the influence of Henry David Thoreau on Susan Glaspell's works / Noelia Hernando-Real

"A group of Urban Thoreaus" : gender and romantic transcendentalism in the poetics of the beat generation / Isabel Castelao-Gómez

Experts in home-cosmography : Thoreau for the experience of Jonas Mekas and cinematographic avant-garde / Sergi Álvarez Riosalido

Staging the "peachable revolution" : Henry David Thoreau and the living theatre / Emeline Jouve

Draft resistance and the anti-war movement as civil disobedience : the influence of Thoreau's political thought on the protests against the war in Vietnam / Cristina Alsina Rísquez

Postmodern reception of H.D. Thoreau's Walden : the construction of literacy solitude in Paul Auster's fiction / María Laura Arce Álvarez

"Then, I say, break the law" : the intertextual influence of H.D. Thoreau's social criticism and peaceful resistance poetics in Maxine Hong Kingston's I love a board margin to my life / Eulalia Piñero Gil.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64889-007-5