Two Fish on One Hook: A Transformative Reading of Thoreau's Walden - Couverture souple

Tripp Jr, Raymond P.

 
9780940262898: Two Fish on One Hook: A Transformative Reading of Thoreau's Walden
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0940262894 ISBN 13 : 9780940262898
Editeur : Lindisfarne Books, 1999

Synopsis

This study of Thoreau's transcendental work offers us the task of doing as Thoreau does, exhorting us to follow the patterns Thoreau sets up in Walden and to approach his work as an act of communication -- one that urges us to listen, to hear, and to act upon what he has to say: one that becomes a transformative experience. It is all too easy, however, to admire Thoreau's art and miss his meaning. Thoreau has constructed Walden on transparent overlays of meaning -- biography, literature, philosophy, and religion -- but in whatever way we read it, Thoreau's words are what work the communicative transformation of his readers. Form, meaning, and language are Thoreau's instruments for unearthing the truth, and Tripp steadfastly follows their spiraling movement down the concentric intricacies of Thoreau's message through the broad structure of Walden, section by section, chapter by chapter, sentence by sentence, word by word until at last they merge, patterns and purposes, form and idea, heaven and earth, at Walden Pond.

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À propos de l?auteur

Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. is Professor Emeritus at the University of Denver, where he has taught American Literature and Medieval Studies.

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Éditeur
Lindisfarne Books
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0940262894
ISBN 13 
9780940262898
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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