Essays about: "José Joaquín Sánchez Vera"

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  1. 1. Thoreau as a Mirror for Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

    University essay from Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : José Joaquín Sánchez Vera; [2013]
    Keywords : Jon Krakauer Henry D.Thoreau Transcendentalism Into the Wild nonfiction biography McCandless economy liberalism nature wilderness fiction transcendentalism romanticism;

    Abstract : Abstract To tell the nonfiction biography of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild Jon Krakauer uses a plethora of references to Henry D. Thoreau. In this thesis I study how Krakauer uses Thoreau while balancing on the fine line that differentiates the historian from the storyteller. READ MORE