The Politics of the Genre: Exploration and Ethnography in The Maine Woods
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Abstract
In “Ktaadn,” the first part of Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods (1864), there appears an interesting reference to Robinson Crusoe:
At one place we were startled by seeing, on a little sandy shelf by the side of the stream, the fresh print of a man’s foot, and for a moment realized how Robinson Crusoe felt in a similar case; but at last we remembered that we had struck this stream on our way up, though we could not have told where, and one had descended into the ravine for a drink. (643)
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Literary Discourse Colonial Discourse American Imagination American Land Immortal Life
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© Marek Paryz 2012