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GEORGE, ROGER ALLEN.

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THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRAVELER (THOREAU, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NARRATIVE).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRAVELER (THOREAU, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NARRATIVE)./
Author:	GEORGE, ROGER ALLEN.
Description:	290 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-12, Section: A, page: 4390.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International47-12A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8706561

THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRAVELER (THOREAU, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NARRATIVE).
GEORGE, ROGER ALLEN.

THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRAVELER (THOREAU, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NARRATIVE). - 290 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-12, Section: A, page: 4390.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1986.

"The traveler must be born again on the road," Thoreau wrote in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. With this dictate, he announced the arrival of a distinctively American sub-genre, the subjective, autobiographical non-fiction travel narrative. Compared to the 18th Century British model of travel writing, exemplified by Samuel Johnson, the American version recorded a test of spiritual ideals rather than an account of people and places visited. Still influenced by Thoreau, American travel narratives emphasize the process of individual conversion or transcendence to the present day, and must be read in light of American transcendentalism, which determines not only their content, but also their narrative form.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRAVELER (THOREAU, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NARRATIVE).
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520 $a "The traveler must be born again on the road," Thoreau wrote in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. With this dictate, he announced the arrival of a distinctively American sub-genre, the subjective, autobiographical non-fiction travel narrative. Compared to the 18th Century British model of travel writing, exemplified by Samuel Johnson, the American version recorded a test of spiritual ideals rather than an account of people and places visited. Still influenced by Thoreau, American travel narratives emphasize the process of individual conversion or transcendence to the present day, and must be read in light of American transcendentalism, which determines not only their content, but also their narrative form.
520 $a The dissertation examines the creative tension between two contradictory transcendentalist impulses: the desire to flee from the constraints of identity and seek "authentic experience" along the road, and the need to establish a community of ideal, awakened individuals the traveler meets during the journey. A special kind of ideal community is also composed of the readers and writers of travel books, a community which extends through time and is kept alive through individual "practices of commitment"--new journeys and new books.
520 $a This pattern is played out in a variety of ways by American travelers ranging from Frances Parkman and John Muir to Robert Pirsig and William Least Heat Moon.
520 $a The dissertation also examines the theoretical problems of evaluating non-fiction, autobiographical narratives, and the complex inter-relationship between the act of traveling, the act of organizing experience in a written account, and the act of reading. The lack of formal unity and coherence, the associative structure of the narrative, and the apparent randomness of the events recounted are consistent with the transcendentalist ideology which inspires the journey and the work. In fact, these narratives are usually carefully crafted so that the reading experience becomes not simply a passive understanding of the event but rather a participatory re-experiencing of the journey. It is this reading experience, potentially a conversion experience itself, that constitutes the power of the American travel book.
520 $a The dissertation places these works within the familiar context of American literature and asks for their inclusion in the canon.
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