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The Big Sky and the Limits Of Wilderness Fiction

The Big Sky and the Limits Of Wilderness Fiction Richard Astro Western American Literature, Volume 9, Number 2, Summer 1974, pp. 105-114 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1974.0000 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/529092/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:25 GMT from JHU Libraries R I C H A R D ASTRO Oregon State University The Big Sky and the Limits Of Wilderness Fiction A decade ago, J o h n M ilton, E ditor of the South D akota Review , conducted a symposium on the Western novel in which he asked such accomplished W estern writers as F rank Waters, Frederick M anfred, W alter V an T ilb u rg Clark and V ardis Fisher w hether th e subject m a tte r a n d /o r regional setting of W estern fiction poses any special problem s for th e W estern novelist. Some of the answers M ilton received were to be expected: th a t Eastern and u rb a n critics cannot understand W estern and non-urban fiction and so tre a t it lightly or ignore it altogether, and th a t the form ula Western has underm ined serious W estern w http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

The Big Sky and the Limits Of Wilderness Fiction

Astro, Richard
Western American Literature , Volume 9 (2) – Oct 4, 2017
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Richard Astro Western American Literature, Volume 9, Number 2, Summer 1974, pp. 105-114 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1974.0000 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/529092/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:25 GMT from JHU Libraries R I C H A R D ASTRO Oregon State University The Big Sky and the Limits Of Wilderness Fiction A decade ago, J o h n M ilton, E ditor of the South D akota Review , conducted a symposium on the Western novel in which he asked such accomplished W estern writers as F rank Waters, Frederick M anfred, W alter V an T ilb u rg Clark and V ardis Fisher w hether th e subject m a tte r a n d /o r regional setting of W estern fiction poses any special problem s for th e W estern novelist. Some of the answers M ilton received were to be expected: th a t Eastern and u rb a n critics cannot understand W estern and non-urban fiction and so tre a t it lightly or ignore it altogether, and th a t the form ula Western has underm ined serious W estern w

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