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The Textual Structure of Thoreau’sOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The present thesis undertakes to study Language in Thoreau`s Walden and Civil Disobedience from a SyntacticoPragmatic perspective. It highlights the most dominant stylistic features which contribute to encoding the writer?s message so much that it would be decoded by the reader but not without exerting strenuous efforts. I have been motivated by some key facts:A)
The study of American nonfiction, particularly from a linguistic outlook, has not yet gained proper attention in Egypt. B) There should be a reliable access to the linguistic and artistic worth of such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, E.B. White, Benjamin Franklin, James Thurber, Henry Adams and many more who are more talked of than properly read or academically surveyed. C) Views on Thoreau`s artistic and linguistic traits must be reconsidered with a view to spotlighting his own worth as a master stylist. D) Works such as Walden and Civil Disobedience display a great fund of linguistic strength that should be exhibited and highlighted. E) A proper understanding of Thoreau`s linguistic mastery would contribute to a more profound enjoyment of his prose style that imparts fresh feelings of experience in the reader. The themes illuminated manifest the reader`s positive participation rather than his/her negative detachment. The present thesis employs the apparatus of linguistic description, highlighting the way linguistic details fit into this whole with a view to bringing to light the linguistic values associated with Thoreau`s mastery of his medium of expression.