Research Catalog

Title

The land's wild music : encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, & James Galvin / Mark Tredinnick.

Author

Tredinnick, Mark.

Publication

San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Description

xiii, 338 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"A lyric reflection on the nature of landscape and its power to shape the lives and syntax of men and women. Examines the work of American writers Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin, looking at how their landscapes--the Cascades, Long Island, the Colorado Plateau, and the high prairies of the Rocky Mountains--have shaped them"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Galvin, James > Criticism and interpretation
• Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Landscapes in literature
• Matthiessen, Peter > Criticism and interpretation
• United States > In literature
• Nature in literature
• Wilderness areas in literature
• Williams, Terry Tempest > Criticism and interpretation
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945- > Criticism and interpretation
• Setting (Literature)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-327) and index.

Contents

The wild music of places : an introduction -- 1. The essential prose of things -- 2. The edge of the trees / Barry Lopez -- 3. The long coastline / Peter Matthiessen -- 4. The heart of an arid land / Terry Tempest Williams -- 5. The real world / James Galvin -- Catching the lyric of the country : a conclusion.

ISBN

• 1595340173 (alk. paper)
• 1595340181 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005016212

OCLC

• OCM60697042
• SCSB-5217681

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries