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Author Browning, Mark, 1962-

Title Haunted by waters : fly fishing in North American literature / Mark Browning
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1: The View from Midstream; Interlude 1: The Frog; Chapter 2: Upstream: The European Fork; Interlude 2: The Dangler; Chapter 3: Upstream: The American Fork; Interlude 3: False Casts; Chapter 4: The Confluence: Roderick Haig-Brown; Interlude 4: First Casts; Chapter 5: Big Two-Hearted Writer: Part One; Interlude 5: The Hanging; Chapter 6: Big Two-Hearted Writer: Part Two; Interlude 6: The House Divided; Chapter 7: A Visit to The River Why; Interlude 7: The End of the Rainbow; Chapter 8: How I Fished and What I Fished For; Interlude 8: Crane Creek
Chapter 9: Ichthys und DuInterlude 9: The Connection; Chapter 10: The View Downstream; Aftermath; Chapter 11: Rivers to the Sea; Works Cited; Index
Summary Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? Haunted by Waters is a self-examination by the author as he constructs his own narrative and tries to answer these questions for himself. But it is also a thorough examination of the answers he uncovers in the course of reading what''s been written on the subject. As his own story unfolds, Mark Browning analyzes angling literature from the Bible to Norman Maclean, always bringing his inquiry back to the same source: the enigma of
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index
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Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
Fly fishing in literature.
Canadian literature -- History and criticism
Fishing stories -- History and criticism
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.
Fly fishing.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Canadian literature
Fishing stories
Fly fishing
Fly fishing in literature
Masculinity in literature
Men in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 082144039X
9780821440391