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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 에 나타난 " digressive essays " 에 대한 연구
장정남 성균관대학교 인문과학연구소 1984 人文科學 Vol.13 No.1
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is Thoreau's first published book (1849) based on a rowboat excursion Thoreau and his brother John took in their homemade rowboat Musketaquid in the fall of 1839. This “river-voyage” actually took “two weeks” from 31 August to 13 September, 1839. They were actually away from Concord fourteen days but seven of these days were spent on a walking trip in New Hampshire after they had sailed up the Merrimack. But in A Week this landward journey dismissed by Thoreau in just three paragraphs and he made these two weeks' narrative of the journey into $quot;one$quot;. But the travel narrative in A Week is only part of the book,-in fact, $quot;not much more than fifty per cent of it.$quot; The remainder of the book is a series of digressions, which are, as many severe Thoreau critics such as James Russell Lowell complained, misunderstood as $quot;a hodgepodge of old poems and translations, of essays in history, criticism, ethics,$quot; or $quot;snags, jolting us headformost out of our places as we are rowing placidly up stream or drifting down.$quot; This paper starts from the effort of clarifying what the nature of these digressions is and mainly concerns with whether these digressions (in this paper only a few (out of eighteen) digressions such as on the fish of the Concord, fables, the Christian religion, Friendship, etc., are being discussed) have any or little connection with the excursion at all. The digressions in A Week covers so many topics, so many fields, that it is difficult to $quot;categorize$quot; them effectively. But this paper shows that A Week can roughly be categorized into $quot;three$quot; main topics: (1) Literature (2) Christian Religion (3) Transcendentalism. This paper's another main concern is, first, to correct the misunderstanding that A Week in actuality is “two books in a book” and secondly, to prove that because of the Thoreau's intentional “strategic metaphor” used in A Week that “self-exploration for Thoreau is metaphorically identified with exploration of the natural world, A Week is “a book of a tightly unifed structural framework.” Digressions in A Week are also accounted for in detail in this paper as a form of the record of this “river-voyage” and therefore, A Week, as William Drake mentioned, becomes “an exploratory journey into thought.”