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Character and Landscape: Frank Waters’ Colorado Trilogy

Character and Landscape: Frank Waters’ Colorado Trilogy William T. Pilkington Western American Literature, Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1967, pp. 183-193 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1967.0060 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528674/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:06 GMT from JHU Libraries W I L L I A M T. P I L K I N G T O N Southw est T exas State College Character and Landscape: Frank Waters’ Colorado Trilogy T h e dram a of people’s “conflicting relationships to th e ir e a rth ,” F ran k W aters once wrote, “has provided som ething of a them atic c o n tin u ity in all my books.”1 Like m ost W estern writers, W aters strives to capture, in D. H . Law rence’s phrase, “the sp irit of place.” B ut as anyone who has su bm itted him self to the pow er an d beauty of his books w ill testify, he is interested n o t simply in n atu ra l settings existing in isolated g randeur, b u t ra th e r in th e subtle in ­ fluence of landscape on character an d http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

Character and Landscape: Frank Waters’ Colorado Trilogy

Pilkington, William T.
Western American Literature , Volume 2 (3) – Oct 4, 2017
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William T. Pilkington Western American Literature, Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1967, pp. 183-193 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1967.0060 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528674/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:06 GMT from JHU Libraries W I L L I A M T. P I L K I N G T O N Southw est T exas State College Character and Landscape: Frank Waters’ Colorado Trilogy T h e dram a of people’s “conflicting relationships to th e ir e a rth ,” F ran k W aters once wrote, “has provided som ething of a them atic c o n tin u ity in all my books.”1 Like m ost W estern writers, W aters strives to capture, in D. H . Law rence’s phrase, “the sp irit of place.” B ut as anyone who has su bm itted him self to the pow er an d beauty of his books w ill testify, he is interested n o t simply in n atu ra l settings existing in isolated g randeur, b u t ra th e r in th e subtle in ­ fluence of landscape on character an d

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Published: Oct 4, 2017

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