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William Matthews – “Desert Barnacle”

William Matthews – “Desert Barnacle”. William Matthews – “The Sagebrush Sea”.

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William Matthews – “Desert Barnacle”

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  1. William Matthews – “Desert Barnacle”

  2. William Matthews – “The Sagebrush Sea”

  3. “You ever see a house burning up in the night, way to hell and gone out there on the plains? Nothing but blackness and your headlights cutting a little wedge into it, could be the middle of the ocean for all you can see.” (Close Range, 209)

  4. Ansel Adams – “The Tetons and Snake River”, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1942)

  5. The Wild Country “You could stand there, braced, cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country—indigo jags of mountain, grassy plains everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky—provokes a spiritual shudder.” (Annie Proulx, Close Range, 107)

  6. The Deceptively Empty Landscape “. . .a vast junkyard field, refineries, disturbed land, uranium mines, coal mines, trona mines, pump jacks and drilling rigs, clear-cuts, tank farms, contaminated rivers, pipelines, methanol-processing plants, ruinous dams, the Amoco mess, railroads, all disguised by the deceptively empty landscape.” (Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2, 2005)

  7. Belatedness “Because [the people] can’t see who’s making the rules and the economic strategies that govern them, they continue to believe in the independent rural life, which is deliciously ironic and very sad.” -Annie Proulx in interview, 2004

  8. “Reality’s never been of much use out here.” –Retired Wyoming Rancher “Westerns distrust language.” -Jane Tompkins, Elements of the Western

  9. Two Traditions AMERICAN REALISM -Late-19th/early-20th century, “naturalism” ”Photographic” rendering of physical details -Unsentimental, socially-minded, graphic -Typically spare, unadorned prose -Colloquial speech THE TALL-TALE -”Old Southwestern humour” of early-mid 19thcentury -Exaggerated or caricatured details, magic, legend, stock character types and events -Black humour, farce, crudeness, grotesque, moralism -Florid, colloquial style

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