Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -- Reading and Discussion Questions
Students in English 171, Sages and Satirists, Brown University, 2002, 2003, and 2005
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Image and Symbol
- Annie, Get Your Similes!
- Dillard and the Symbolical Grotesque
- The Horse Fly of Tinker Creek
- The Penny as Symbol in Annie Dillard's
The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Hidden Pennies, Deflated Frogs, and Inverted Magicians
- Not for the Faint of Heart: The Horrors of Nature in Annie Dillard's
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Epigrams and Old Toms
- Dillard outlines her project
- Dillard's Dreams
Ethos and Style
- "Shooting the Agate": Fine Prose and Nonfiction
- Sitting Under Anaphora Tree
- Dillard: humble child or wise sage?
- Looking over Dillard's Shoulder
- Lists, Lists and More Lists
- Neatness Counts
- Dillard's Scare Quotes
- Dillard's Web of Words
- Annie Dillard's Jumping Genres
- Dillard's Cat
- Technically Speaking . . . (Observing with Technology)
- Dillard Crosses The Paper Divide (addressing the reader)
- An Illuminated Pilgrim? (Imagery of light)
- Dillard's Fearful Fixed
Theme and Subject
- Annie Dillard as an Infant Puppy
- The Self as Instrument: Personal Boundaries in
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Writing is Seeing in Annie Dillard's
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Seeing is Unbelieving
- Up on Tinker Creek, she sends me
- Nurturing A Knowledge of Nature in Dillard's
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Dillard and People
- How Does Dillard Know How To "Pet the Puppy"?
- Talking with the Animals: Dillard, Doolittle, and the Puritan Aesthetic
- Dillard's scientific errors
- Dillard's Microcosmos of the extremely privileged
Literary Relations — Sources, Influences, Confluences
- The Pilgrim and Her Progress
- London Girls, Hollywood Murders and Tinker Creek Frogs: The Symbolical Grotesque in Wolfe, Didion and Dillard
- "I" Versus "They": The Textual and Communal Self in Three Female Autobiographers -- Didion, Suleri, and Dillard
- Defamiliarization and Renewing the Art of Perception in Thomas Carlyle, D.H. Lawrence, and Annie Dillard
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