Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau by Branka Arsić

By Branka Arsić

Branka Arsic exhibits that Thoreau constructed a concept of vitalism in line with his brother’s demise. via grieving, he got here to work out lifestyles as a generative strength into which every little thing dissolves and reemerges. This reinterpretation, according to resources ignored through critics, explains a lot of Thoreau’s extra idiosyncratic behavior and obsessions.

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