Attunement in the Estuary

Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Spring 2015

Keywords

Ecocritical multimodal writing, Chuckanut Bay estuary, Attunement

Abstract

This year I have been engaging in the most exciting undertaking of my life so far, exploring the concept of attunement as a writer in natural environments. Over the course of the year I have sat in the branches of trees, swam through frigid waters, climbed sandstone ledges and narrow trails, all within the brief stretch of Bellingham coast that is the Chuckanut Bay Estuary.

I like to think of the writing I’m doing as part environmentalism, part adventure, part rhetorical and ontological theory. As I trek and traverse through beautiful spaces, I am developing new ideas about the nature of, well, being in nature. This starts with attunement, which has been at the center of all of my interactions with the environment. How do we open our awareness to the world around us? How do we come into contact with our surroundings, and what comes of those varying and combined points of contact?

Department

English

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https://soundcloud.com/ianmferris/attunement-in-the-estuary

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

American prose literature--Washington (State)--Chuckanut Bay; Nature in literature; Nature (Aesthetics)

Geographic Coverage

Chuckanut Bay (Wash.)

Genre/Form

student projects; term papers

Type

Text

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

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Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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