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LA125156
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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The Gospel According to this Moment:
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[Article]
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Thoreau, Wildness, and American Nature Religion
First Statement of Responsibility
Alan D. Hodder
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Leiden
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Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Ever since the Sierra Club adopted the slogan, "In wildness is the preservation of the world," the text from which it was drawn-Thoreau's 1862 essay "Walking"-has been construed as a tribute to wild places. To some extent this reading keeps faith with sentiments expressed in the essay. At the same time, a closer look suggests that the essay as a whole is really more about the life of the spirit than life in the wild. Despite the popular appropriation of "Walking" as a manifesto of environmentalist advocacy, some critics have questioned the usual view of "Walking." Such observations also have a bearing on Thoreau's legacy as a progenitor of the literary expression of American nature spirituality. The purpose of this essay is to elucidate a particular experiential orientation to this spiritually-inflected notion of wildness, beginning with Thoreau and extending into the work of three literary exemplars of American nature religion-John Muir, Edward Abbey, and Annie Dillard. Ever since the Sierra Club adopted the slogan, "In wildness is the preservation of the world," the text from which it was drawn-Thoreau's 1862 essay "Walking"-has been construed as a tribute to wild places. To some extent this reading keeps faith with sentiments expressed in the essay. At the same time, a closer look suggests that the essay as a whole is really more about the life of the spirit than life in the wild. Despite the popular appropriation of "Walking" as a manifesto of environmentalist advocacy, some critics have questioned the usual view of "Walking." Such observations also have a bearing on Thoreau's legacy as a progenitor of the literary expression of American nature spirituality. The purpose of this essay is to elucidate a particular experiential orientation to this spiritually-inflected notion of wildness, beginning with Thoreau and extending into the work of three literary exemplars of American nature religion-John Muir, Edward Abbey, and Annie Dillard.
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Date of Publication
2011
Physical description
460-485
Title
Religion and the Arts
Volume Number
15/4
International Standard Serial Number
1568-5292
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
American nature religion
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American nature writing
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Annie Dillard
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Edward Abbey
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Henry David Thoreau
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John Muir
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wildness
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Alan D. Hodder
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10.1163/156852911X580793
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