Enhancing an environmental mindset: The role of living nature metaphors in H. D. Thoreau's Walden, or life in the woods.
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International Journal of Language Studies. Oct2023, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p141-158. 18p.
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RE, Anna
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International Journal of Language Studies. Oct2023, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p141-158. 18p.
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This paper examines the use of living metaphors in two chapters of Walden, Life in the...
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Enhancing an environmental mindset: The role of living nature metaphors in H. D. Thoreau's Walden, or life in the woods.
International Journal of Language Studies. Oct2023, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p141-158. 18p.
This paper examines the use of living metaphors in two chapters of Walden, Life in the Woods (1854)--namely, "Solitude" and "The Ponds"--by H. D. Thoreau . In these chapters, the rhetorical figure makes a decisive contribution to defining fundamental conceptual structures for the perspective of life and of thought that Thoreau wants to present, producing creative frames that define the metaphorical value of the whole experience at Walden Pond. He uses metaphorical concepts associated with the environment to create nature metaphors with a specific purpose: to bring man closer to nature, and nature closer to man. The analysis refers to Prandi's (2017) theory on conceptual living metaphors; Prandi denies that living metaphorical expressions are extensions of conventional metaphorical structures, arguing instead that living metaphors are the result of conceptual conflict, as they are not supported by shared metaphorical concepts, but derive from complex and conflicting meanings. If living metaphors turn out to be a specific type of conceptual structure, their relationship to conventional metaphors needs to be reconsidered. This view enables an investigation into the use of living metaphor in Walden, where it is configured as a conceptual tool placed in service of the message Thoreau wishes to convey. Many creative metaphors in Walden are more than mere embellishment. They are conceptual structures that highlight conflictual meanings, bringing together conflicting concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Metaphor - Conceptual structures - Loneliness - Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862Content provider:
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Walden.
Buckner, Sally
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. [ABSTRACT FROM...
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Walden.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-4. 4p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Henry David Thoreau ’s Walden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Liberty - Individuality - Nature - Natural history - Outdoor life - Ponds - Thought & thinkingContent provider:
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Heart, Dennis
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Thoreau Society Bulletin. Spring, 2022 Issue 317, p4, 3 p.
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Academy of American Poets -- Biographies of American Poets; 2008, p1-1, 1p
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Networked Solitude: Walden, or Life in Modern Communications.
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Texas Studies in Literature & Language. Fall2016, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p329-351. 23p.
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Yoshiaki Furui
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Texas Studies in Literature & Language. Fall2016, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p329-351. 23p.
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An essay is presented on the critical discussion regarding the relationship of ninetee...
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Networked Solitude: Walden, or Life in Modern Communications.
Texas Studies in Literature & Language. Fall2016, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p329-351. 23p.
An essay is presented on the critical discussion regarding the relationship of nineteenth-century U.S. poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau with modernity. It also compares Thoreau with sixteenth-century French thinker Michel de Montaigne in terms of their views on solitude. The author discusses the kind of value Thoreau attached to the concept of solitude in spite of the myth of his self-reliance and individualism.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 - Modernity - Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 - Solitude - IndividualismContent provider:
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A Lecture on Thoreau : Borges in Search of a Stronger Individualism
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Variaciones Borges. July, 2022, Vol. 54, p61, 19 p.
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Campomar, Jaime
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Variaciones Borges. July, 2022, Vol. 54, p61, 19 p.
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord ...
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-2. 2p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Henry David Thoreau ’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Brothers - Nature - Country life - Thought & thinking - Transcendentalism (Philosophy) - New EnglandContent provider:
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Richardson Jr., Robert D.
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Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Letter T, p1142-1146. 5p.
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Features author Henry David Thoreau. Background on Thoreau's interest in literature; ...
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Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Letter T, p1142-1146. 5p.
Features author Henry David Thoreau . Background on Thoreau's interest in literature; Overview of his book "Walden"; Information on his interest in Asian philosophy and religion.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 - Authors - Walden (Book : Thoreau) - Asian philosophy - ReligionContent provider:
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Sadkin, David
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Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1985, Vol. 2, p1177-1181. 5p.
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The article presents a research guide on the life and works of author Henry David Thor...
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Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1985, Vol. 2, p1177-1181. 5p.
The article presents a research guide on the life and works of author Henry David Thoreau . Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He entered Harvard University in 1833 and graduated in 1837. His first essay and poem was published in the journal Dial in 1840. In the same year he proposed to Ellen Sewall. He and his brother John opened a private school in 1838. Thoreau visited Minnesota in 1861 for his health and on May 6, 1982, he died of tuberculosis. His works includes Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 - Authors - Life history interviews - GenealogyContent provider:
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Bodies in Late Romanticism: Two Perspectives.
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Perichoresis. 2020, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p59-71. 13p.
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Simuţ, Ramona
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Perichoresis. 2020, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p59-71. 13p.
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Faith in a Seed.
Powell, John
The first collection and edition of a number of articles on natural history, unfinishe...
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Faith in a Seed.
Magill’s Literary Annual 1994. Jun1994, p1-3. 3p.
The first collection and edition of a number of articles on natural history, unfinished and drafted in the last years of Henry David Thoreau ’s life, which demonstrate his genius as a writer-scientist [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Authors - Conservatism - Earth sciences - Evolutionary theories - Nature - Nineteenth century - New EnglandContent provider:
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One World at a Time: Remembering Henry David Thoreau on the 150th Anniversary of His Death.
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Concord Saunterer. 2011/2012, Vol. 19/20, p250-269. 20p.
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Loviglio, Lorraine;Weiss, Dianne;Peterson, Polly;Rankin, Jenny
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Concord Saunterer. 2011/2012, Vol. 19/20, p250-269. 20p.
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Cain, William E.
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Society. October, 2018, Vol. 55 Issue 5, p452, 8 p.
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Insurrectionist Ethics and Thoreau .
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Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Winter2013, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p29-45. 17p.
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MCBRIDE III, LEE A.
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Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Winter2013, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p29-45. 17p.
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Walden.
Williams, Donna Glee
A summary and analysis of Walden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Walden.
Identities & Issues in Literature. Sep1997, p1-1. 1p.
A summary and analysis of Walden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Liberty - Individuality - Nature - Natural history - Outdoor life - Ponds - Thought & thinkingContent provider:
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Rewalking Thoreau and Asia: 'Light from the East' for 'A Very Yankee Sort of Oriental.'
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Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy. Jan2007, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p14-39. 26p.
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Scott, David
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Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy. Jan2007, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p14-39. 26p.
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Walden.
Walden provides a model of the ethical uses of nature and serves almost as a handbook ...
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Walden.
Ethics (Ready Reference series). Apr1994, p1-1. 1p.
Walden provides a model of the ethical uses of nature and serves almost as a handbook for an environmental ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Liberty - Individuality - Nature - Natural history - Outdoor life - Ponds - Thought & thinkingContent provider:
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Biography
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Academy of American Poets -- Biographies of American Poets. 2008, p1-1. 1p.
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A biography of the poet and author Henry David Thoreau is presented. He was born in 18...
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Academy of American Poets -- Biographies of American Poets. 2008, p1-1. 1p.
A biography of the poet and author Henry David Thoreau is presented. He was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Although his family lived in relative poverty, Thoreau was able to attend Harvard. In 1841, Thoreau was invited to live in the home of his neighbor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. There he began meeting with the group now known as the Transcendentalist Club. It is as a prose writer that Thoreau made his most meaningful contributions, both as a stylist and as a philosopher. Thoreau died of tuberculosis in 1862 in his native Concord.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 - Poets - Authors - Philosophers - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 - TuberculosisContent provider:
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CONCEPTUAL DISSONANCE BETWEEN THOREAU AND WORDSWORTH'S VIEW ON NATURE AND IMAGINATION.
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Studia Universitatis Petru Maior - Philologia. 2013, Issue 15, p87-92. 6p.
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JALALPOURROODSARI, Mahshad
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Studia Universitatis Petru Maior - Philologia. 2013, Issue 15, p87-92. 6p.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850) belong to two diffe...
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CONCEPTUAL DISSONANCE BETWEEN THOREAU AND WORDSWORTH'S VIEW ON NATURE AND IMAGINATION.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 -1862 ) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850) belong to two different sects. The former is a Transcendentalist or a member of American Romanticism with its unifying account of self and nature, and the latter is an English Romantic poet belonging to a group of poets called the "lake School [or] the lakers" (Ruston, 2007: p. 90-91) who were involved in the appreciation of and dissolution in their natural surroundings. Despite the fact that these two figures have much in common, there are points and junctures where they diverge in their perspectives towards the essential grounds of their parallel philosophies. Through having a look at Thoreau's Walden and Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, this paper would attempt to present a broad account of the major aspects in which their literary ideas and points of views approach or diverge in regards to nature and imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Studia Universitatis Petru Maior - Philologia. 2013, Issue 15, p87-92. 6p.
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Cognitive dissonance - Imagination - Philosophy - Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 - Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850Content provider:
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Maynard, W. Barksdale
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Art Bulletin. Jun99, Vol. 81 Issue 2, p303. 23p. 24 Black and White Photographs, 1 Map.
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Civil Disobedience.
Bankston, III, Carl L.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience. [A...
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Civil Disobedience.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-2. 2p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Henry David Thoreau ’s Civil Disobedience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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GUARDING WHAT IS ESSENTIAL: CRITIQUES OF MATERIAL CULTURE IN THOREAU AND YANG ZHU.
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Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy. Jul2008, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p358-371. 14p.
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Fox, Alan
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Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy. Jul2008, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p358-371. 14p.
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Excursions.
Thoreau, Henry David
Presents the complete text of "Excursions" by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
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Excursions.
Excursions. 3/1/2006, p1. 107p.
Presents the complete text of "Excursions" by Thoreau , Henry David , 1817 -1862 .
