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Individual and collective relationships with British Columbia's coastal landscape in Roderick Haig-Brown's "On the Highest Hill"

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: My presentation is on individual and collective relationships with BC’s coastal landscape in Roderick Haig-Brown’s novel, "On the Highest Hill". Using the main character, Colin Ensley, I consider how individualism and collectivism play out in his relationship with the land. This paper asks large questions (although it does not answer them), such as what does BC’s natural landscape mean to people? Do people tend to think of the landscape objectively, spiritually or both? Are people’s perceptions of the BC landscape today much different than those in the 1930s?

Source: VIUSpace (Vancouver Island University Library)

DOI: 10.25316/4j0z-hh77

Author: Chelsea Southern

Language: English

Topic: Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2976245379

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