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To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson
Author Info
Fulton, Allison
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1464213371
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2016, BA, Oberlin College, English.
Abstract
My research explores the reflective qualities of nature that can lead to different ways of being in and of the world. In The Singing Wilderness, Sigurd Olson details his experiences in the Quetico-Superior region, an international wilderness of lakes and forests on the border of Canada and Minnesota that is replete with spaces for reflection. Olson encourages his readers to listen to the sounds, songs, and silences of the wilderness. I address his creation of a literary terrain he made accessible to his readers by acting as a guide to the imaginative wilderness with a literary canoe and paddle.
Committee
T. S. McMillin (Advisor)
Pages
48 p.
Subject Headings
American Literature
;
Environmental Philosophy
;
Literature
Keywords
Canoe
;
Listening
;
Singing
;
Guide
;
Horizon
;
Dreaming
;
Wilderness
;
Quetico-Superior Region
;
Consciousness
;
Knowledge
;
Experience
;
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Fulton, A. (2016).
To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson
[Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1464213371
APA Style (7th edition)
Fulton, Allison.
To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson.
2016. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1464213371.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Fulton, Allison. "To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1464213371
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This open access ETD is published by Oberlin College Honors Theses and OhioLINK.
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