ANNIE DILLARD’S TRANSCENDENTAL VISION OF MODERN WORLD
Keywords:
despair, transcendental, alienation, earth, observationAbstract
Annie Dillard, born in 1945, is one of the leading American environmentalist writers. She is best known for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek which she published in 1974, winning the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. The present article studies this text in regards to Dillard’s vision of the modern world. Dillard’s vision attempts to get people out of the sense of despair and alienation that dominate them and calls for, to use R. W. Emerson words, “an original understanding” of the world, the human and nonhuman. It is a vision that looks at the contradictory processes of nature as essential and necessary in the natural world.
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