After Bob : reflections on retracing the steps of Robert Marshall
Title:
After Bob : reflections on retracing the steps of Robert Marshall
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by Russ J. Van Paepeghem.
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Publication Information:
2008.
Physical Description:
vi, 139 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
General Note:
"May 2008."
Dissertaton Note:
Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2008.
Abstract:
"After Bob is a braided work of first-person creative nonfiction about my attempt to retrace the steps of Robert Marshall in the Brooks Range of Alaska and the wilderness complex of his name in Western Montana. Chapters in the Alaska section chronicle my attempt to establish Marshall as a person of the past whose influences affect the present in terms of my own thoughts about the wild, wilderness policy, and Western American ideals of the outdoors. My partner, Erin, is offered as a double for Marshall; both are people whom I do not fully understand but seek to communicate with nonetheless. The Montana section employs a narrative about hiking in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on a path that Marshall hiked, exploring the rhetoric behind wilderness and investigating the communication between Erin and me. Points of convergence between Marshall's life and my own illustrate the rising social consciousness found in Marshall's writing and exemplify the consciousness I experienced through that hike. After Bob draws on contemporary literature about wilderness, Marshall's writing about Alaska and Montana, biographies of Marshall's life, and my own thoughts about the experience of chasing after a figure in history"--Leaf iii.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-139).
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Contents:
1. Alaska -- The topography of silence -- Brooks Range -- Seward, or Toward Doonerak -- Two in One -- 2. Montana -- South Fork Flathead -- Moving away -- Big Prairie -- Gordon Creek -- 3. After Bob -- After Bob -- References.