Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams
This thesis explores nonhuman landscapes in two works of contemporary nature writing, i.e. Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams (1986). A close reading of the texts vis-à-vis theories of phenomenology reveals the multiple approaches that each of the first-pe...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Master Thesis |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2018
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/63468 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-66024 |
id |
ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/63468 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/63468 2023-05-15T14:25:30+02:00 Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/63468 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-66024 eng eng http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-66024 Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi. Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams. Master thesis, University of Oslo, 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/63468 URN:NBN:no-66024 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/63468/1/master-thesis2.pdf phenomenology interpretation posthumanism nonhuman ecocriticism nature writing Master thesis Masteroppgave 2018 ftoslouniv 2020-06-21T08:52:09Z This thesis explores nonhuman landscapes in two works of contemporary nature writing, i.e. Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams (1986). A close reading of the texts vis-à-vis theories of phenomenology reveals the multiple approaches that each of the first-person narrators combines to ponder a non-anthropocentric interraction with nonhumans. As the name nonhuman suggests, this interraction is shadowed by an inherent discrimination, mirrored by nature writings’s classical question of the nature/culture dichotomy. My argument is that a shift from representation to interpretation is what exposes these narrators’ to the uncanniness of nonhuman agency and the perplexity of posthuman thinking. I will show that while Pilgrim at Tinker Creek does not move beyond this exposure, Arctic Dreams contextualizes the quandaries and allows its readers to probe into posthuman ethics by referring to snapshots of life in a hostile northern Arctic. Master Thesis Arctic Arctic Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Arctic |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) |
op_collection_id |
ftoslouniv |
language |
English |
topic |
phenomenology interpretation posthumanism nonhuman ecocriticism nature writing |
spellingShingle |
phenomenology interpretation posthumanism nonhuman ecocriticism nature writing Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams |
topic_facet |
phenomenology interpretation posthumanism nonhuman ecocriticism nature writing |
description |
This thesis explores nonhuman landscapes in two works of contemporary nature writing, i.e. Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams (1986). A close reading of the texts vis-à-vis theories of phenomenology reveals the multiple approaches that each of the first-person narrators combines to ponder a non-anthropocentric interraction with nonhumans. As the name nonhuman suggests, this interraction is shadowed by an inherent discrimination, mirrored by nature writings’s classical question of the nature/culture dichotomy. My argument is that a shift from representation to interpretation is what exposes these narrators’ to the uncanniness of nonhuman agency and the perplexity of posthuman thinking. I will show that while Pilgrim at Tinker Creek does not move beyond this exposure, Arctic Dreams contextualizes the quandaries and allows its readers to probe into posthuman ethics by referring to snapshots of life in a hostile northern Arctic. |
format |
Master Thesis |
author |
Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi |
author_facet |
Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi |
author_sort |
Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi |
title |
Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams |
title_short |
Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams |
title_full |
Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams |
title_fullStr |
Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams |
title_full_unstemmed |
Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams |
title_sort |
caught in the cobweb: posthuman quandaries in annie dillard’s pilgrim at tinker creek and barry lopez’s arctic dreams |
publishDate |
2018 |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/63468 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-66024 |
geographic |
Arctic |
geographic_facet |
Arctic |
genre |
Arctic Arctic |
genre_facet |
Arctic Arctic |
op_relation |
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-66024 Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi. Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams. Master thesis, University of Oslo, 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/63468 URN:NBN:no-66024 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/63468/1/master-thesis2.pdf |
_version_ |
1766297889403830272 |