Inventions of solitude: Thoreau and Auster

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The challenges posed by Henry David Thoreau's Walden to many readers from 1854 to the present day, largely arise from its refusal to ground itself in stable terminology. Both Thoreau and Auster's writings solitude is frequently portrayed as enabling a dream-like schism of the self enabling one to follow both Stillmans at once. Solitude is construed as a way of linking the with the world via multiple, metamorphic selves.

Criticism and interpretation, Solitude, Thoreau, Henry David, Auster, Paul

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Losing grip: Emerson, Leroux and the work of identity

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Emerson became the great American chiffonier and introduced the topic of vocation, juxtaposing the proverbially mercantile Jew against the helpful produce of manual labor. It is argued that Emerson's ambivalent efforts to engage with communalism and its discourse of physical labor were overtaken by the advent of socialist thought which overtly contested Emerson's core doctrine of self reliance.

United States, Authors, Writers, Works, Manual work

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