Toying with Death in Walden
This essay tries to question the usual, quasi-consensual reading of Walden as a celebration of life, health and youth. It relies on a network of underground metaphors which introduce a number of disturbing interferences into the text, from slumber, choking or infectiousness to decay and death, and a...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2017-12-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/6040 |