Essays about: "American nature writing"
Found 2 essays containing the words American nature writing.
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1. Tick-Tock or Not: Don DeLillo’s Point Omega and the Unreliability of Postmodern Time : A Barthesian analysis investigating the shifting meanings of ’writerly’ temporality
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : Born out of an interest in the subjective perception of time, and a desire to test the possibilities of applying the structuralist/poststructuralist analytical framework laid out by Roland Barthes in his S/Z on a contemporary work of fiction, this essay is first and foremost a foray into the shifting meanings of time in Don DeLillo’s 2010 novel Point Omega, and by extension the post-millennial era as a whole. Against a complex backdrop concerning the nature of time in postmodernity, gleaned from a review of articles by Mitchum Huehls, Frederic Jameson and Ursula K. READ MORE
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2. Den naturliga människan - en undersökning av naturens roll för det mänskliga känslolivet, sett genom Henry David Thoreaus Walden
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how the American nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) writes about nature, and natures role for the human emotions. The study takes basis in one of the writer’s most famous works – Walden; or, Life in the woods, from 1854, which he wrote after he had been living in a small cottage in the woods around walden pond for over 2 years. READ MORE
