Henry David Thoreau's De-genera Description

Authors

  • Gigliola Nocera

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1592-4467/9016

Keywords:

description, narration, diegesis, Henry David Thoreau

Abstract

This essay focuses on the relationship between "description" and "narration" in the works of Henry David Thoreau. Through his intertextual universe - that of such Natural History writers as Charles Darwin, Gilbert White or John Muir - Thoreau adopts in his writing a model that is, on a reduced scale, the same model of operation as the universe. According to this model, "description" equals diegesis while "narration" equals Roland Barthes' "fluctuating sequence of stasis".

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Published

1995-09-01

Issue

Vol. 6 (1995): Untitled

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Articles

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