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All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature (review)

All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature (review) Western American Literature Fall 2012 the Pacific northwest are more complicated than panoramas of snowdappled peaks sweeping up from thousand-acre spreads might suggest, this book is sure to please. All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature. Edited by Brady Harrison. Lincoln: University of nebraska Press, 2009. 271 pages, $50.00. Reviewed by Capper Nichols University of Minnesota, Minneapolis In his introduction to this satisfying collection of literary criticism, Brady Harrison writes, "[Each] of the scholars ... engages an abiding issue in western studies: does place or region matter?" (xvi). Though the title and scope of the book suggests it does matter, Harrison is skeptical about the possibility of a coherent, bounded "Montana." But that's not the same as saying that boundaries aren't telling. According to Harrison, "writers and scholars can still explore and argue over the implications and nuances of place, nature, history, memory, self, desire, and more in the lived and imaginative experiences of Montana and the West" (xvii). Harrison describes such engagement as building on the work of previous critics and historians and filling in a "few more pages" on the Montana literary story. But this is too modest. In taking up neglected writers http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature (review)

Western American Literature , Volume 47 (3) – Nov 21, 2012

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Western American Literature Fall 2012 the Pacific northwest are more complicated than panoramas of snowdappled peaks sweeping up from thousand-acre spreads might suggest, this book is sure to please. All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature. Edited by Brady Harrison. Lincoln: University of nebraska Press, 2009. 271 pages, $50.00. Reviewed by Capper Nichols University of Minnesota, Minneapolis In his introduction to this satisfying collection of literary criticism, Brady Harrison writes, "[Each] of the scholars ... engages an abiding issue in western studies: does place or region matter?" (xvi). Though the title and scope of the book suggests it does matter, Harrison is skeptical about the possibility of a coherent, bounded "Montana." But that's not the same as saying that boundaries aren't telling. According to Harrison, "writers and scholars can still explore and argue over the implications and nuances of place, nature, history, memory, self, desire, and more in the lived and imaginative experiences of Montana and the West" (xvii). Harrison describes such engagement as building on the work of previous critics and historians and filling in a "few more pages" on the Montana literary story. But this is too modest. In taking up neglected writers

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Published: Nov 21, 2012

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