Tracking Thoreau: Double-Crossing Nature and Technology

By John Dolis

Tracking Thoreau explores the constellation of three central issues in Thoreau's oeuvre: nature, culture, and technology. Here, nature's own technology-above all, it's inherent ability to stray, to wonder, to transcend boundaries, to transform itself-mirrors the subject as it cultivates its "self" through composition, narration, and style. Such expression, like nature itself, involves unriliness, a transformation in the narrative, and in the subject of narrations (its self), that likewise allows it to change, go wild, or even lose its way.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611472946
• ISBN13: 9781611472943
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 231 Pages