SOURCE: "The Dialectical Vision of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," in Critique, Vol. XXIV. No. 3, Spring, 1983, pp. 182-91.
In the essay below, Reimer argues that Dillard employs a dual dialectic in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, first between nature and religion, then between beauty and horror.
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