LIBRARY
ENG 498 Seekers and/of the Mysterious: Annie Dillard
New ENG498 with Dr. Patrick Crerand; LibGuide by Prof. Carol Ann Moon
For the Time Being
For the Time Being by Call Number: AmazonISBN: 9780375703478Publication Date: 2000-02-08National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." --Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding. "Stimulating, humbling, original--. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."--Rocky Mountain News
Personal introspection and research - Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN)
Me-Search and Re-Search by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781617353956Publication Date: 2011-03-01art I: Setting the Stage for Writing an SPN -- Chapter 1: What Our Book Is About -- Chapter 2: Why Can�t I Write More Personally, More Honestly? -- Chapter 3: Autoethnographies, Memoirs, Personal Narrative Essays, Autobiographies -- Chapter 4: Okay Then! What Exactly Is Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing? -- Part II: The Four Components of SPN: Pre-Search, Me-Search, Re-Search, We-Search -- Chapter 5: How Do You Get Started?
Chapter 6: DeMethra�s Pre-Search Dissertation ProcessChapter 7: Speaking to All the Me-Search Self-Doubters -- Chapter 8: Tell Your Story, Speak Your Truth -- Chapter 9: The SPN Way to Think About Research -- Chapter 10: The Relationship of Art to Truth in SPN Writing -- Chapter 11: The Centrality of Theme-Search in SPN Research -- Chapter 12: Moving from the Pre-, the Me-, and the Re-, to the We- -- Chapter 13: DeMethra�s Use of We-Search and Universalizability in Her Dissertation -- Part III: The Nuts and Bolts SPN Toolbox
Chapter 14: The Nuts and Bolts SPN ToolboxPart IV: Additional Resources for SPN Writers -- Chapter 15: Our SPN Course Syllabus -- Chapter 16: Putting It All Together: One Successful Example of a Longer SPN Manuscript -- Chapter 17: How to Deal with PSPND Syndrome -- Chapter 18: Creating an SPN Code of Ethics -- Chapter 19: How to Create Faculty Support for SPN Writing -- References
Links to Interviews with Dillard
RSA Animate Presentation
This RSA presentation explores how author Annie Dillard emphasizes the significance of Human connection in what she claims to be the Purpose of man's life. This analysis is taken from the book For The Time Being specifically the sections titled "Encounters" Presentation by students: Natalia Mora, Alyssa Schoonmaker, and Cristian Melo (in the order they appear)