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The Romantics
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Annie Dillard
PATC
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What was the name of Rachel Carson's environmentalist book?
Silent Spring
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What is the name of Emerson's famous essay (published as a short book)?
Nature
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What word describes art created after the late 1960s?
Postmodern
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What was Dillard's religious background?
Presbyterian
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Which source most influenced PATC?
Thoreau's Walden
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Who was Dillard's favorite poet?
Emily Dickinson (shows good taste)
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In what region was nature writing and the Romantic movement strongest?
New England
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The Gothic movement arose in reaction to what idealogical movement? What did these movements emphasize?
the Englightenment: rationalism, empiricism Gothic: danger, the occult, violence, exoticism
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Where did Dillard go to school, and who did she meet there?
Hollins College for women in Roanoke Her future husband and writing professor (weird) Richard Henry Wilde Dillard
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name the two halves of PATC, and describe each
via positiva and via negativa I'm not going to type out a description
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Which hurricane caused the flood in chapter 9?
Hurricane Agnes
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What philosophy sees the natural environment as an expression of deeper realities, and who used this idea in their writing?
Neo-Platonism; Emerson
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Name a major modernist theme.
The alienation of the individual Emphasis on the Orient
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What was Annie Dillard's original name?
Meta Ann Doak
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What is strange about the title of the book? Explain.
Pilgrimages can't really occur "at" a place, since they are by definition a journey
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Name an environmental regulation bill passed in the US within a few years of PATC's publishing
Endangered Species Act (1973) Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972) Clean Water Act (1972)
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What group (somewhat associated with the Romantics) compromised some combination of an intellectual and religious sect?
The Transcendentalists
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name some results of the industrial revolution (3)
depopulation of rural areas, increased urbanization, water and air pollution, and population expansion
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What was the name of Dillard's first poetry collection?
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
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Name two different ways this book can be classified (genre)
theodicy, creative nonfiction, arguably nature writing
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What region is William Wordsworth most associated with?
The Lake District
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Name one of three naturalists mentioned in this section.
William Bartram, John James Audubon, and Gilbert White
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which philosopher wrote A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
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Where did Dillard work after PATC's initial success?
She was scholar-in-residence at Western Washington University in Bellingham
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What is the name of Dillard's favorite entomologist?
J Henri Fabre