Essays about: "Thoreau"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Thoreau.

  1. 1. WANDER AROUND WITH GOSSAGE AND THOREAU LOOKING FOR SCHMIDT

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Patrik Elgström; [2020-12-17]
    Keywords : Genius Loci; analogue photography; visualization; imaginary space; phenomenology; The Spirit of Place; ; darkroom; film; architecture; Virginia Woolf; John Gossage; Edmund Husserl;

    Abstract : I was looking for a monument but instead I found an anonymous patch of grass in a cemetery in Berlin which marked the grave of photographer Michel Schmidt. In an attempt to understand I had to go backward into my own history to find reasons why I was standing there. READ MORE

  3. 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 lärdomshistoria

    Author : Anna Olsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Henry David Thoreau; Nature; Emotions; Walden; American nature writing; Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau; Natur; Känslor; Amerikansk naturskildring; Transcendentalism; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 3. Nature and Culture: Teaching Environmental Awareness Through Literature

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

    Author : Jon Nyman; [2014]
    Keywords : Ecocriticism; Walden; Thoreau; Into the Wild; Krakauer; Nature; Culture; interconnectedness; sustainability; school; environment; awareness;

    Abstract : Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka och tolka relationen mellan koncepten natur och kultur, så som de är hanterade i Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or. Life in the Woods (1854) och Into the Wild (1996) av Jon Krakauer, med hjälp av en ekokritisk analys. READ MORE

  5. 4. Why are Gandhi and Thoreau AFK? : In Search for Civil Disobedience online

    University essay from Medier och kommunikation

    Author : Jan-Peter Kleinhans; [2013]
    Keywords : DDoS; Civil Disobedience; Gandhi; Thoreau; Activism; Digital Activism; Protests; Philosophy; Distributed Denial of Servie; Rawls; Brownlee; Hacktivism; Virtual Sit-Ins;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates if Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks constitute a valid form ofcivil disobedience online. For this purpose a multi-dimensional framework is established,drawing on Brownlee’s paradigm case and classical theory of civil disobedience. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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