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03360aam a2200421 i 4500 001 E6596A866B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150327s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015008700 020 $a 1501305646 020 $a 9781501305641 020 $a 1501305654 020 $a 9781501305658 035 $a (OCoLC)891610535 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d CDX $d NYP $d YUS $d PUL $d OCLCQ $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3057 P4 M66 2015 100 1 $a Mooney, Edward F., $d 1941- $e author. 245 10 $a Excursions with Thoreau : $b philosophy, poetry, religion / $c Edward F. Mooney. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., $c 2015. 300 $a xvi, 274 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of "a child of the mist"; his exalting "sympathy with intelligence" over plain knowledge; and his preferring "befitting reverie"--Not argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A literary and philosophical exploration of Thoreau as a prose-poet and religious adept who carries us into fresh and unexpected communion with landscape, seascape, open sky, and what he calls "the unfathomable.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index. 505 8 $a Acknowledgements -- Note on abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Overture -- Chapter 2: Celebration and Lamentation -- Chapter 3: Sympathy with Intelligence -- Chapter 4: Concord Reflections -- Chapter 5: Transforming Perception -- Chapter 6: Ethics and the Wild -- Chapter 7: Expressive Bones -- Chapter 8: Child of the Mist -- Chapter 9: Deaths and Rebirths -- Chapter 10: Affliction and Affinity -- Chapter 11: John Brown -- Chapter 12: Souls in Infinite Culture -- Chapter 13: Currents of Time -- Chapter 14: Grounding Poetry -- Chapter 15: Face of the River -- Closing Thoughts -- Closing Images, Reveries, Prayers -- Closing Passions -- Chronology -- Works Cited -- Credits. 600 10 $a Thoreau, Henry David, $d 1817-1862 $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 650 0 $a Suffering in literature. 650 0 $a Religion in literature. 650 0 $a Poetry $x Influence. 650 0 $a Insight. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180203014146.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826041431.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E6596A866B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search