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The full text is available here http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/18851/18544 Many similar subjects can be traced in world literature; among them is nature since it belongs to man/nature binary opposition. The... more
The American Romanticists of the mid-19th century may not have held a monopoly on being the first literary authors to opine about nature’s vast beauty, overwhelming immensity and humbling simplicity, but they were a generation of writers... more
This paper posits that the notion of aesthetic ambiguity and the emphasis on site-specific, rather than style-specific approach, has been a central and under-examined position in the architecture of Ricardo Bofill. Accordingly, it... more
Much of the political theory literature on Thoreau is divided, with one camp focusing on resistance and civil disobedience, while the second concentrates on withdrawal. This bifurcation is not borne out in Thoreau’s texts, and it can lead... more
This essay argues that the prose style of Walden—and the use of metaphor in particular—is a literary mechanism for considering one of Thoreau’s chief philosophical concerns: the idea of necessity. The formal aspects of Thoreau’s prose... more
Full "uncensored" version of my article published in the "Thoreau Society Bulletin" 290 (Summer 2015), 10.
The point of this paper is to foster an awareness of the varied uses to which scholars are putting the term 'ecocriticism' in varied perspectives today. Thoreau's Walden is such indisputable literary monument on environmental literature... more
The point of this paper is to foster an awareness of the varied uses to which scholars are putting the term 'ecocriticism' in varied perspectives today. Thoreau's Walden is such indisputable literary monument on environmental literature... more
American Transcendentalism (1836-1860), despite having an amorphous and transient lifespan, holds strong importance in American history: religious, philosophical, and literary. Not only did this movement approach societal and spiritual... more
The revisitation of Walden&Thoureau and Sidhartha&Hesse suggests a revision of the relation spirituality&architecture&landscape. The fusion between Nature and states of mind, or between landscapes and mindscapes underlines the... more
This essay singles out the peculiar animal soundscape that Thoreau sketches in Walden, especially in the following chapters: “Higher Laws”, “Brute Neighbors” and “Winter Animals”. In them, in fact, the ‘I’ describes and recollects the... more
This fully annotated and well-illustrated catalog descibes the private collection of Kevin Mac Donnell acquired by The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods in 2014. The collection consists of 366 items, including first editions, original... more
Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line” (1998) presents significant deviations from James Jones’s 1962 novel on which it is based. In fact, Malick’s adaptation introduces some philosophical interrogations absent in the novel concerning the... more
Am Unabhängigkeitstag 1845 zieht Henry David Thoreau sich zurück in die Wälder von Concord, um sich dort eine Hütte zu bauen. Von diesem Experiment berichtet sein Buch Walden, ein faszinierendes, aber bis heute in der akademischen... more
The full text is available here http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/18851/18544 Many similar subjects can be traced in world literature; among them is nature since it belongs to man/nature binary opposition. The American... more
Analysis of key themes in "Walden: Civil Disobedience".
Ce texte revient sur une oeuvre récente de l'artiste Stéphane Thidet, intitulée From Walden to space. Il envisage à partir d'une double structure d'écriture (forme courte et forme longue) d'interroger les modalités du récit et le... more
This paper was the basis for a talk given at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering in 2015. What may interest Thoreau scholars is the image of a phoenix, found in Walden's "Conclusion" (at the very end), which I unpack in the opening... more
Introduction by M. Allen Cunningham to the book FUNNY-ASS THOREAU (Atelier26 Books, 2016). Explores the neglected subject of Henry David Thoreau's sense of humor. This essay appeared on Lit Hub, November 2016.
Permanent link to this scholarly article: http://hdl.handle.net/2268/230448
"Volar" es una provocación, un título que podría sonar pretencioso para el propio Thoreau, que escribió que “mantenerse a la expectativa puede convertirse en una profecía” (cf. el 12 de abril de 1852), una lección inapreciable para quien... more
¿Cuándo aprenderá el mundo que un millón de hombres carece de importancia en comparación con un solo hombre?
Thoreau a Emerson, Staten Island, 8 de junio de 1843
Thoreau a Emerson, Staten Island, 8 de junio de 1843
Paper and Panel Chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, US, November.
2017. “Book review.” Celestial Mechanics: a tale for a mid-winter night. By William Least Heat-Moon (a.k.a. William Trogdon), New York: Three Room Press, 2017. University of Toledo Carlson Library Digital Archives; Department of Geography... more
A La Terre Institute weekend program in the woods. Time is divided between discussion of selections from _Walden_ and “Civil Disobedience" and periods of walking, reflection, and meditation.
This article proposes an evaluation of Thoreau's decision to abandon formal teaching early in his life and focused on his lifetime work, The Journal, to extract from it the ethics and methods of what could be, today, a Thoreauvian method... more
Un breve saggio di introduzione al celebre Walden di H.D. Thoreau.
Much of the political theory literature on Thoreau is divided, with one camp focusing on resistance and civil disobedience, while the second concentrates on withdrawal. This bifurcation is not borne out in Thoreau’s texts, and it can lead... more
On Thoreau, the death drives of capitalism, and how traveling and Manifest Destiny may have to do w both.