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Questions to tourists stopped by Walden pond: Waterscapes, words and literary tourism

dc.contributor.authorAlves, Isabel Maria Fernandes, 1964- ‎
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-09T13:54:13Z
dc.date.available2025-07-09T13:54:13Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to analyze the meaning of Walden Pond, a real body of water between Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts, as it appears in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854). This pond is first and foremost a place on whose shores the writer decided to live between 1845 and 1847. Secondly, the literary representation of the lake functions as a symbol of simplicity, of obser-vation and knowledge, and, in this sense, I seek to investigate how Thoreau’s words about the Walden pond have contributed to the (trans)formation of readers’ and tourists’ minds. Moreover, my interest is to draw from works about literary tourism and to see how literary words construct the tourist vision, as “in literary tourism, narratives act as the primary source of information about a place, stimulating motivation to travel” (Charapan & Mikulich, 2019). Thus, my proposal aims to show that because water is characterized as mirrorlike, windowlike, and with no definite shape it is a fertile metaphor for poetic imagery. Additionally, to evince that (literary) words, place, waterscapes and tourists interrelate in the forging of (new) consciousnesses, better suited to practice reverence for our common home.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2975-8602
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/102098
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherCentro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação da Universidade do Algarvept_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://publicacoes.ciac.pt/index.php/litntour/article/view/115pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectHenry David Thoreaupt_PT
dc.subjectWalden pondpt_PT
dc.subjectLiteraturept_PT
dc.subjectLiterary tourismpt_PT
dc.subjectEnvironmentpt_PT
dc.titleQuestions to tourists stopped by Walden pond: Waterscapes, words and literary tourismpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceFaropt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage53pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage47pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleLIT&TOUR: International Journal of Literature and Tourism Researchpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume1pt_PT
person.familyNameFernandes Alves
person.givenNameIsabel Maria
person.identifier.ciencia-idF610-CE2D-3F8C
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6714-3570
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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