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The Spirit of the Huckleberry

Sensuousness in Henry Thoreau

by (author) Victor Carl Friesen

Publisher
The University of Alberta Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1984
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888640437
    Publish Date
    Jan 1984
    List Price
    $21.00

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Description

Thoreau's delight in being attuned to each sound, sight, flavour, touch and taste of nature is pervasive in his writings. Victor Friesen looks at the implications of Thoreau's sensuous approach to nature throughout his life.

About the author

Author (and painter) Victor Carl Friesen remains ever a “farmboy,” although he now, with his wife, Dorothy, lives in the town of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, but five miles from the quarter-section on which he was born. He holds MA and PhD degrees from the universities of Saskatchewan and Alberta respectively. Both his master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation focused on Henry David Thoreau, a foremost nature writer, and resulted in two books: The Spirit of the Huckleberry, a literary analysis of Thoreau’s work, and The Year Is a Circle, poems and photographs celebrating the American writer. Friesen has published nine other books and has won the Alberta Book of the Year Award and the Pfeiffer Award for academic research and writing. In addition, Friesen has authored some three hundred journal articles.

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