THE ACT OF READING THOREAU’S WALDEN

Autores/as

  • Ana Lúcia Almeida Salles

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.8..21-28

Palabras clave:

Henry David Thoreau, Wolfgang Iser, reader-response theory, textual strategies

Resumen

This essay investigates Henry David Thoreau’s Walden from the perspective of Wolfgang Iser’s theory of reader-response. The present analysis demonstrates the presence of negations and blanks, and detects strategies that leadthe reader to respond by assembling meanings, constructing images, identifying metaphors, and participating in some of the narrator’s transcendental experiences.

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Biografía del autor/a

  • Ana Lúcia Almeida Salles
    Mestre em Letras: Estudos Literários (Área de concentração: Literaturas de Expressão Inglesa), 2003.

Referencias

ISER, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1981.

KRUTCH, Joseph Wood (Ed.). Introduction. Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau. By Henry David Thoreau. Toronto: Bantam, 1982. 1-23.

MCELRATH, Joseph R., Jr. Thoreau’s Walden. Cliffs Notes. Ed. Gary Carey. Lincoln, NE: Cliffs Notes, 1995.

THOREAU, Henry David. Walden and Civil Disobedience. Norton Critical Editions. Ed. Owen Thomas. New York: Norton, 1966.

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Publicado

2004-12-31

Número

Vol. 8 (2004)

Sección

Em Tese

Cómo citar

SALLES, Ana Lúcia Almeida. THE ACT OF READING THOREAU’S WALDEN. Em Tese, Belo Horizonte, v. 8, p. 21–28, 2004. DOI: 10.17851/1982-0739.8.21-28. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/article/view/32396. Acesso em: 14 jan. 2026.