![]() In her desire to see the world truly and with fidelity, Dillard wrestles with difficult questions about our place as human animals, the nature of the world we share with other beings, and how to respond to the overflowing beauty and horror of experience. The second chapter considers how Dillard’s practice of close attention opens her perception in a way that allows her to see the full reality of the more-than-human world, including not just the beautiful and awe-inspiring encounters described in Chapter One, but also its dark, disturbing, unsettling parts. The first chapter explores Dillard’s desire to see truly, like the Romantics, and follows her journey of attention into the natural world, analyzing her epiphanic, enchanting, and enlivening experiences of deeply intimate engagement with things both minute and massive. ![]() ![]() Through a close reading of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, this thesis presents an argument for the ecological value of a sense of wonder in our engagements with the more-than-human world. ![]()
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