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"The Length of Our Vision": Thoreau, Berry, and Sustainability
… two works that offer critiques of progress: Thoreau's classic text, Walden, and Wendell Berry's, The Unsettling of America. These texts are chosen for a few reasons. First, a clear tradition of critical inquiry can be traced from Thoreau to Berry. Second, the historical distance between these …
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The Wild Apple Tree: Possibilities of the Self in Thoreau
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Thoreau's Confucianism in The Dial, Walden, and Civil Disobedience.
… the influence of Confucianism on Henry David Thoreau. In fact, Thoreau's long-time study of Confucius greatly enriched his thought and contributed to his spiritual and intellectual growth. Prior to Thoreau's study of Confucius, Thoreau did not publish any of his works. Early in 1843 Thoreau …
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"A More Perfect Indian Wisdom": Transcultural Exchange in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
… radically re-envisions the work of Henry D. Thoreau while also examining additional nineteenth-century authors to investigate the relationship between transcultural performance, exploration, and literature in the United States during the antebellum period. In a nation simultaneously freeing …
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"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir
… explore how critical writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir incorporate insects into their work. This study explores three interrelated issues connected to encounters with and explorations of the microscopic and unacknowledged position of insects in nature: first, how …
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E. B. White and Henry Thoreau : a study of satiric technique related to world view
… of living.</p> <p>E. B. White and Henry David Thoreau have been linked together by several of E. B. White's contemporaries. White has been called the twentieth century Thoreau, because he expresses some of the same opinions Thoreau does, because he writes a good deal about Thoreau and Thoreau's …
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Toward the still point : T. S. Eliot's Four quartets and Thoreau's Walden
… Four Quartets, might have been influenced by Thoreau’s famously autobiographical prose work Walden, written nearly a century earlier. Much evidence suggests that Eliot knew of the earlier writer and his work. Not only did Eliot assign Walden as suggested reading in a course he taught, but as …
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The Swift Water Place: Water Quality, Fish Ecology, and Hydropower in the Merrimack River since the Time of Thoreau
… the stream for two centuries. When Henry David Thoreau and his brother John put their dory into the Merrimack in September of 1839, they were paddling into a landscape that was shifting towards water-powered industries and mill cities. The legal transformation of water and the completion of the …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
… their travel books, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain participated in a nineteenth-century debate about American hospitality. Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and respecting social cohesion, many Americans in the nineteenth century practiced …
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An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy
An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy would quite naturally begin with a study of the influences which were prominent in the formative years of his thinking. Since the readings of the Orientals- chiefly the "Bhagavad-Gita", "The Laws of Menu", "The Veda", and portions of Confucius -had such …
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Thorough;
Henry David Thoreau writes in the first chapter of his book, Walden, that before he could begin work on his house by the pond, he first had to borrow an axe. "Near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and …
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An Awakened Sense of Place: Thoreauvian Patterns in Willa Cather's Fiction
… parallels between Cather's and Henry David Thoreau's use of awakening imagery and examines how such parallels work in Cather's environmental discussion of wilderness and environmental communities. There is little direct evidence linking the development of Cather to Thoreau, although their …
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"Svaraj and Self -Reliance: Translating the Self and Its Rule From the ""Bhagavad -Gita"" and ""Manusmr&dotbelow;ti"" to the Works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi"
… of self-trust arose from reliance on God within. Thoreau cultivated himself by the asceticism of The Laws of Manu, and he transformed the Bhagavad-Gita's reflections on action into the grounds for political resistance. Gandhi recombined the Transcendentalists with Indian ideas to develop his …
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A Sensory Tour of Cape Cod: Thoreau's Transcendental Journey to Spiritual Renewal
… his other works, Cape Cod depicts Henry David Thoreau's interpretation of life as a struggle for survival and a search for salvation in a stark New England setting. Representing Thoreau's greatest test of the goodness of God and nature, the book illustrates the centrality of the subject of …
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THOREAU'S A WEEK, RELIGION AS PRESERVATIVE CARE: OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND A RELIGION OF SUBJUGATION
… argues for a rereading of Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) as "Transcendental scripture writing." By placing his book in this genre, Thoreau's religious thinking comes to the fore. His book becomes a contextualized pilgrimage addressing three …
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Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Emily Dickinson’s nature poems and Henry David Thoreau’s great poem of Walden enact patterns of human relationship with the natural world, patterns that resound in our living interactions with nature. In their efforts to valorize alternative, relational perceptions of human self, Dickinson and …
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Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Emily Dickinson’s nature poems and Henry David Thoreau’s great poem of Walden enact patterns of human relationship with the natural world, patterns that resound in our living interactions with nature. In their efforts to valorize alternative, relational perceptions of human self, Dickinson and …
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Characterization of XV7 and XV9 cDNA clones which confer osmotolerance to Eschericia coli
… receptor was recently entered into the Genbank (Thoreau, unpublished), therefore not much is known about its characteristics. It does show similarity to a myotonin protein kinase, MtPK (Thoreau, unpublished). The plant receptor-like protein kinases (RLKs) are structurally related to the …
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We must look a long time before we can see : the art and science of Thoreau's early works
… of environmental literature than Henry David Thoreau, whose seamless synthesis of science and art illustrates his own version of sight, one that relies on two distinct ways of seeing --the embodied, or literal, and the disembodied, or philosophical. While much has been written about …
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