Des strates sous la carte : les paradoxes de la surface dans A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers de Henry D. Thoreau
Is Thoreau a reader of surface or of depth? In A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Thoreau describes his excursion on the river as a spatial experience of surface but he also evokes the longer perspective of deep time, which suggests an affinity with spatial and temporal depth. By loo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2015-08-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7295 |
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| Summary: | Is Thoreau a reader of surface or of depth? In A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Thoreau describes his excursion on the river as a spatial experience of surface but he also evokes the longer perspective of deep time, which suggests an affinity with spatial and temporal depth. By looking at a hand-drawn map that Thoreau copied for the excursion, this article examines how Thoreau’s narrative is embedded in several different temporalities and how the spatial experience of surface becomes a temporal experience of depth, dramatized by language itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1765-2766 |