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Henry David Thoreau's Aesthetics
Verena Kerting
其他書名
A Modern Approach to the World
出版Lang, 2006
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature
ISBN08204984919780820498492
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pu7yAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The aim of the analysis is to show how Thoreau anticipated modern, 20th century notions of world and art. Following a summary of Baumgarten's, Leibniz', Descartes' and Kant's aesthetic theories five basic aesthetic questions are formulated. A close reading of Walden and the Journal answers these questions in regard to Thoreau's artistic approach. The close reading documents his life-long struggle for an adequate perception of the phenomena that - made his world. To Thoreau even the most trivial thing expressed its divine character through its specific beauty. The last two chapters of the analysis reveal the connections that exist between Thoreau's aesthetics of the trivial and 20th century aesthetics, between his notion of nature as expression and recent biosemiotic theory."