Self, Salvation, and Story: Writing Rescues on Glenora Peak and the Taylor Glacier
This paper examines John Muir's construction and presentation of self in two narratives of perilous climbing adventures in Alaska. The author compares Alaska missionary Hall Young's romantic image of Muir as a heroic mountaineer with the self-effacing persona of Muir's own books and w...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:muir-symposium-1052 2023-05-15T16:20:20+02:00 Self, Salvation, and Story: Writing Rescues on Glenora Peak and the Taylor Glacier Branch, Michael 1996-04-19T02:30:00Z https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-symposium/1996/events/10 unknown Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-symposium/1996/events/10 Muir Symposium History text 1996 ftunivpacificmsl 2022-05-28T22:27:48Z This paper examines John Muir's construction and presentation of self in two narratives of perilous climbing adventures in Alaska. The author compares Alaska missionary Hall Young's romantic image of Muir as a heroic mountaineer with the self-effacing persona of Muir's own books and with the decentered or "transparent" style of Muir's mountaineering narratives. Muir's willingness to celebrate his own prowess as a mountaineer was always predicated upon making nature--in the form of a wild sheep, a flower, a glacier, or a dog--the "hero" of his story. Although Muir became the romantic hero of Hall Young's Alaska stories, his own work projects the romantic sensibility onto the landscape, thereby decentering the human subject. Text glacier Taylor Glacier Alaska University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Glenora ENVELOPE(-131.390,-131.390,57.844,57.844) Taylor Glacier ENVELOPE(162.167,162.167,-77.733,-77.733) |
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This paper examines John Muir's construction and presentation of self in two narratives of perilous climbing adventures in Alaska. The author compares Alaska missionary Hall Young's romantic image of Muir as a heroic mountaineer with the self-effacing persona of Muir's own books and with the decentered or "transparent" style of Muir's mountaineering narratives. Muir's willingness to celebrate his own prowess as a mountaineer was always predicated upon making nature--in the form of a wild sheep, a flower, a glacier, or a dog--the "hero" of his story. Although Muir became the romantic hero of Hall Young's Alaska stories, his own work projects the romantic sensibility onto the landscape, thereby decentering the human subject. |
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