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Branka Arsić Bird Relics (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Bird Relics : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau
- Publication Name
- Bird Relics
- Title
- Bird Relics
- Subtitle
- Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0674088476
- EAN
- 9780674088474
- ISBN
- 9780674088474
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Science, Philosophy
- Release Year
- 2016
- Release Date
- 04/01/2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Topic
- Death, Grief, Bereavement, Movements / General, General, American / General, History
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 29.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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Product Information
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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674088476
ISBN-13
9780674088474
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211267305
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bird Relics : Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Death, Grief, Bereavement, Movements / General, General, American / General, History
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
29.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
B931.T44a77 2015
Reviews
In Bird Relics , Branka Arsic delves into Thoreau's writings, with particular attention to the Indian Notebooks and unpublished bird notebooks, to trace the way his thinking about nature developed over the years into a kind of pan-vitalism, which sees the generative forces of life at work in death, disease, and natural decay., [ Bird Relics ] reorients our understanding of Thoreau'e(tm)s materialist vitalism. ArsiÄ++'e(tm)s reading of both canonical texts and understudied fragments uncover a radical philosophy of life'e"a vibrant ontology in which writing about what generates our experience also means blurring conventional distinctions between the realistic and the fantastic, animate bodies and inanimate ones, what it means to live and what it means to die. Readers compelled by turns to materialism, ecology, and ontology in recent criticism could hardly hope for a better introduction to lesser-known features of Thoreau'e(tm)s idiosyncratic body of work'e¦ Bird Relics begins by unfolding a stunning, if also heartrending, theory of perpetual mourning that becomes the centerpiece of her approach to Thoreau'e(tm)s philosophy of life., Arsic constructs a subtle and exhilarating argument in which Thoreau's take on vegetable and animal life, as well as his theory of mourning, becomes a radically novel understanding of nineteenth-century thought in the Americas. Bird Relics will have profound consequences for how we think about personal identity, the distinction between animate and inanimate, human and non-human, sacred and profane. We will never read Thoreau in the same way again., [ Bird Relics ] reorients our understanding of Thoreau's materialist vitalism. Arsić's reading of both canonical texts and understudied fragments uncover a radical philosophy of life-a vibrant ontology in which writing about what generates our experience also means blurring conventional distinctions between the realistic and the fantastic, animate bodies and inanimate ones, what it means to live and what it means to die. Readers compelled by turns to materialism, ecology, and ontology in recent criticism could hardly hope for a better introduction to lesser-known features of Thoreau's idiosyncratic body of work... Bird Relics begins by unfolding a stunning, if also heartrending, theory of perpetual mourning that becomes the centerpiece of her approach to Thoreau's philosophy of life., [ Bird Relics ] reorients our understanding of Thoreau's materialist vitalism. Arsic's reading of both canonical texts and understudied fragments uncover a radical philosophy of life--a vibrant ontology in which writing about what generates our experience also means blurring conventional distinctions between the realistic and the fantastic, animate bodies and inanimate ones, what it means to live and what it means to die. Readers compelled by turns to materialism, ecology, and ontology in recent criticism could hardly hope for a better introduction to lesser-known features of Thoreau's idiosyncratic body of work... Bird Relics begins by unfolding a stunning, if also heartrending, theory of perpetual mourning that becomes the centerpiece of her approach to Thoreau's philosophy of life., Arsic discovers in Thoreau's corpus a man deeply affected by his brother's death, but also a man who turns his brother's death into the occasion for a renewed understanding of life's vitality--of life as vitality. Her readings are fresh and original; they are also layered through and through with a depth of learning uncommon in contemporary scholarship. To borrow a word she uses in her account of Thoreau, I think this is a 'stunning' book., ArsiÄ++ discovers in Thoreau'e(tm)s corpus a man deeply affected by his brother'e(tm)s death, but also a man who turns his brother'e(tm)s death into the occasion for a renewed understanding of life'e(tm)s vitality'e"of life as vitality. Her readings are fresh and original; they are also layered through and through with a depth of learning uncommon in contemporary scholarship. To borrow a word she uses in her account of Thoreau, I think this is a 'e~stunning'e(tm) book.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-011245
Dewey Decimal
818/.309
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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