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Texas Studies in Literature and Language
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ISSN (Print) 0040-4691 - ISSN (Online) 1534-7303
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Introduction: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek at Fifty
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  Abstract: "I read about the polar ice," Annie Dillard wrote a half century ago, "and I drive myself deeper and deeper into exile from my own kind" (181). It's a moment of existential crisis in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as the narrator, reading obsessively and meditating in solitude about the fraught human relationship to the natural world, feels overcome with estrangement and despair. She can't stand her own mind, to slightly paraphrase Allen Ginsberg, and she is trapped with it.The line speaks to me of crisis of a different sort, resonating in uncanny ways with our contemporary moment of climatological unraveling. These days, we too read about the polar ice, disappearing at a staggering, supercharged pace before our very ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00
"To Get a Feel for What This Means": Annie Dillard's Thought Experiments
and the Quest to Understand Compassion
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  Abstract: Human beings tend to be quickly overwhelmed by large-scale events—or by reports of such events. Our diminishment of attention begins to occur very quickly, as the numbers swell from one to two. By the time we start to hear news of 1,000 victims—or even ten—our eyes glaze over and we turn away. We also lose interest in challenges that seem too large for us to effectively help with, sensing that our contributions will merely be a drop in the bucket. And when we face multiple overlapping problems, we typically turn to face the issue that seems to have the most direct impact on our personal (or national) security and well-being, which means we often push aside other similarly pressing concerns. It is not easy, from a ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00
Reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in the Digital Age: On Corpus Stylistics
and "Intricacy"
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  Abstract: Since its publication in 1974, Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize–winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek has received continuous attention from literary critics and scholars. Much criticism of the work has focused on the two Neoplatonic Christian principles of via negativa and via positiva governing the book's structure (Cardone 87; Carroll 26; Radaker 138). While the via positiva approach presupposes the presence of God in nature, the via negativa assumes God's hiddenness and lack of visibility (Carroll 26–28). These two governing concepts, as most seasoned critics and scholars of the text are aware, inform the book's structure and dialectical vision (Cardone 87; Carroll 26). Commenting on how the two principles are closely ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00
Pilgrim Guide: Coming to Our Senses amid the Climate Crisis
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  Abstract: There is a story my father used to tell me, one I must have asked to hear dozens of times as I was growing up. In it, he is a seminarian training to become a Catholic priest, a college student continuing an education that began when he left home at fourteen. He is assigned to tutor a young, sensitive, blind boy named John.The first time John comes to the seminary, they walk together through the big, heavy wooden doors of the main building on the campus. They are at Maryknoll College in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, outside of Chicago, sometime in the late 1960s, but as a child in the 1980s I imagined the school as large and airy, filled with the generous California light I remembered seeping into my skin when I first met ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00
A Melting Glossary of Water: Seeping into Separations
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  Abstract: The gaps are the thing … they are the fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fjords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too.See marsh.See spring.Our shepherd dog used to join my walks by the creek, but when she got fragile, I walked alone. Our dog was named for a mountain range out west, had lived in four states and traversed nearly forty, residing most of her life out east. The creek by our path flowed over smoothed stones, to cragged palisades of a river, toward a bay to the Atlantic. The wooded trail layered in loops. In summer, storms waterlogged roots and felled trees. Autumn leaves rusted gold. In winter ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00
Teaching Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in Beijing
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  Abstract: Iam sitting in a capsule on a bullet train heading north, from the capital city of China, Beijing, to Dandong, a middle-sized port city located in northeastern China, on the border with North Korea. Comfortably protected from the heat outside, I lower the tray table, put my ThinkPad on it, and reflect on the course I taught the past semester. The mountainous landscape outside resembles Northern California, a place I lived for more than six years, but greener and more populated. The dazzling daylight from the window is constantly interrupted by moments of darkness, sometimes long and sometimes brief, reminding passengers that the train enters the tunnels carved out of the Yanshan Mountains. The on-and-off 5G ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00
Infinite Storms of Beauty: Hopkins, Dillard, and the Epistemology of
Downturn, 1870s/1970s
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  Abstract: It is customary for the title of an academic essay to begin, before the colon, with an evocative phrase from the author or work under consideration. But the supposedly catchy hook of this essay is not from Gerard Manley Hopkins, nor yet from Annie Dillard, whose 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek will be the central focus of the pages to come. It is instead from John Muir—stolen, in fact, from the famous nature writer's Travels in Alaska (1915), reset without attribution into the text of Tinker Creek, and pluralized by me in deference to the multifocal approach of this hopefully not too unorthodox essay. What I aim to do here is to put the British poet Hopkins and the American essayist Dillard into constellation across a ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00
Where Is here, When Is now' Literary "Presentism" after Romanticism
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  Abstract: Twentieth-century nature writers have been both successors and renovators of the Romantic heritage. At the same time, some parts of the great heritage of Romanticism have been, implicitly or explicitly, the object of the criticism of twentieth-century writers, because "Romantic idealism" gave priority to the metaphysical over the physical and to transcendental truths over material facts. Most post-Romantic nature writers, especially those in the twentieth century, have had to seek a different approach to the natural world, trying to get beyond Romanticism and thereby to open up a new, less idealistic and more experiential dimension.Annie Dillard is one such post-Romantic writer. What distinctly characterizes the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-04T00:00:00-05:00

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