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  title info:
    title: Excursions with Thoreau
    sub title: philosophy, poetry, religion
  name:
    name part: Mooney, Edward F.
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 274 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course, Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction, his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction, his use of the enigmatic image of "a child of the mist," his exalting "sympathy with intelligence" over plain knowledge and his preferring "befitting reverie," not argument, as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Overture -- Chapter 2: Celebration and Lamentation -- Chapter 3: Sympathy with Intelligence -- Chapter 4: Concord Reflections -- Chapter 5: Transforming Perception -- Chapter 6: Ethics and the Wild -- Chapter 7: Expressive Bones -- Chapter 8: Child of the Mist -- Chapter 9: Deaths and Rebirths -- Chapter 10: Affliction and Affinity -- Chapter 11: John Brown -- Chapter 12: Souls in Infinite Culture -- Chapter 13: Currents of Time -- Chapter 14: Grounding Poetry -- Chapter 15: Face of the River -- Closing Thoughts -- Closing Images, Reveries, Prayers -- Closing Passions -- Works Cited.
  note: Edward F. Mooney.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Thoreau, Henry David
      name part: 1817-1862
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Nature in literature
  subject:
    topic: Suffering in literature
  subject:
    topic: Religion in literature
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Insight
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
  classification: PS3057.P4 M66 2015
  classification: 818/.309
  identifier: 9781501305658 (hardback)
  identifier: 1501305654 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781501305641 (paperback)
  identifier: 1501305646 (paperback)
  identifier: 2015008700
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150327
    record change date: 20170928105827.0
    record identifier: in00003601127