The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing“I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. In creating this list, and many others that appear in his writings, Thoreau was working within a little-recognized yet ancient literary tradition: the practice of listing or cataloguing. This beautifully written book is the first to examine literary lists and the remarkably wide range of ways writers use them. |
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... Thoreau , Henry David , 1817-1862 - Technique . 5. Melville , Herman , 1819-1891 - Technique . 6. Whitman , Walt , 1819-1892 - Technique . 7. Catalogs in literature . I. Title . PS217.L57B45 2004 810.9'2 - dc22 2004016113 A catalogue ...
... 1 CHAPTER 2 Emerson 36 CHAPTER 3 Whitman 73 CHAPTER 4 Melville 120 CHAPTER 5 Thoreau 168 Extracts : A List of Literary Lists 207 Notes 225 Bibliography 239 Index 247 Preface *** January is a terrible time to be considering.
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