Des strates sous la carte : les paradoxes de la surface dans A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers de Henry D. Thoreau

Is Thoreau a reader of surface or of depth? In A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Thoreau describes his excursion on the river as a spatial experience of surface but he also evokes the longer perspective of deep time, which suggests an affinity with spatial and temporal depth. By loo...

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Main Author: Julien Nègre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2015-08-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7295