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"LABORATORY OF THE ARTIST": HENRY THOREAU'S LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC USE OF THE JOURNAL, 1848-1854.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	"LABORATORY OF THE ARTIST": HENRY THOREAU'S LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC USE OF THE JOURNAL, 1848-1854./
作者:	ROSSI, WILLIAM JOHN.
面頁冊數:	228 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-08, Section: A, page: 3040.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International47-08A.
標題:	Literature, American. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8627040

"LABORATORY OF THE ARTIST": HENRY THOREAU'S LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC USE OF THE JOURNAL, 1848-1854.
ROSSI, WILLIAM JOHN.

"LABORATORY OF THE ARTIST": HENRY THOREAU'S LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC USE OF THE JOURNAL, 1848-1854. - 228 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-08, Section: A, page: 3040.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1986.

Largely because of the commercial failure of his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, in 1849, Henry Thoreau was forced to redirect his literary energies in the years immediately following. In this process the Journal played a vital role, as it became the focus of the daily routine Thoreau established to balance the pressing demands of getting a living with those of his art and genius. The result was a method of journal composition which served two purposes, sometimes simultaneously: it enabled him to produce draft for literary works in progress and to record and reflect on his observations of nature. Although "Walking" (1862) is usually regarded as a late work, much of what became the final essay was developed in the early 1850s Journal and delivered in a lecture as the first fruit of this method. And the same method allowed him to draft passages for Walden (1854) in preparation for the major revision of that manuscript which he began in early 1852.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a Largely because of the commercial failure of his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, in 1849, Henry Thoreau was forced to redirect his literary energies in the years immediately following. In this process the Journal played a vital role, as it became the focus of the daily routine Thoreau established to balance the pressing demands of getting a living with those of his art and genius. The result was a method of journal composition which served two purposes, sometimes simultaneously: it enabled him to produce draft for literary works in progress and to record and reflect on his observations of nature. Although "Walking" (1862) is usually regarded as a late work, much of what became the final essay was developed in the early 1850s Journal and delivered in a lecture as the first fruit of this method. And the same method allowed him to draft passages for Walden (1854) in preparation for the major revision of that manuscript which he began in early 1852.
520 $a The aims and method behind Thoreau's observations of nature, as revealed in the Journal, are illuminated when seen in the context of the idealist approaches to natural history which, in the 1840s and 1850s, competed vigorously with the positivist approach that eventually triumphed. Thoreau's critique of positivist methodology (and to some extent his own alternative method) thus has interesting affinities with the more recent critique developed by Michael Polanyi.
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