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Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau

Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau


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In Walden x 40, adopting Thoreau’s own compositional method, Robert B. Ray takes up several questions posed in Walden. Thoreau developed his books from his lectures, and his lectures from his almost-daily journal notations of the world around him, with its fluctuating weather and appointed seasons, both forever familiar and suddenly brand new. Ray derives his 40 brief essays from the details of Walden itself, reading the book in the way that Thoreau proposed to explore his own life—deliberately. Ray demonstrates that however accustomed we have grown to its lessons, Walden continues to be as surprising as the November snowfall that, Thoreau reports, “covered the ground . . . and surrounded me suddenly with the scenery of winter.”

Table of Contents:
Bibliographical Note Introduction 1. Adventure 2. Ants 3. Awake 4. Baskets 5. Books 6. Colors 7. Death 8. Distance 9. Drummer 10. Experiment 11. Fashion 12. Flute 13. Full of Hope 14. Genius 15. Good and Evil 16. Higher Laws 17. Idleness 18. July 4, 1845 19. Kittlybenders 20. Leaving Walden 21. Moulting 22. Name 23. Numbers 24. Obscurity 25. Opportunity 26. Philosopher 27. Proving 28. Question 29. Readers 30. Rents 31. Ruins 32. Spider 33. Stripped 34. Tracks and paths 35. Unexplorable 36. Vocation 37. Without bounds 38. X marks Walden's depth 39. Years 40. Zanzibar Notes Annotated Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Robert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1980; The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy; How a Film Theory Got Lost (IUP, 2001); and The ABCs of Classic Hollywood.

Review :
"The essays often return to the same quotations and ideas, illuminating Walden's darker, more obscure passages from various philosophical and theoretical perspectives - thought experiments that read like a thick layering of superimposed snapshots that Ray has taken from different angles of Walden's pages...Ray's collection of readings never resolve themselves into a single argument, always teetering on the brink of explanation. Yet its evasive technique may be Walden x 40's greatest charm, pointing the reader back to Walden itself so that she might engage in her own interrogations." - Alexander Manglis, Times Literary Supplement, July 27th 2012


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253223548
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 204
  • Sub Title: Essays on Thoreau
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253223547
  • Publisher Date: 24 Nov 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 322 gr


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