George Sessions Research Articles

ROY EBERHARDT’S ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP IN CARL HIAASEN'S HOOT

This study aims to describe the main character’s attitude to nature and it influences to his environmental stewardship in Carl Hiaasen’s novel Hoot. Deep Ecology theory by Bill Devall and George Sessions is applied in this study in studying the attitude of Roy Eberhardt to his environment and how it affects his environmental stewardship. 
 This study used qualitative research as a method to analyze the data. The data of this study are Roy Eberhardt’s utterances, behavior, action and author’s narration in the novel. There are some conclusions based on the study; 1) Roy attitude’s toward nature are active and positive. It causes Roy to feel responsible to the preservation of environment around him like how he tries to save the owls. 2) Roy’s attitude that thought any creatures have the same right to life makes him to take non-violence action to save the nature. The attitude influences Roy to take peaceful actions to stop the owls’ nest destroyed by the industry.

The Nature-Human Relationship: An Ecocritical Reading of Self in Keats’ Poem

This study analyzes the fusion of self and nature in John Keats's ode "Ode to a Nightingale" from ecocritical perspective. To do so, the ecocritical insights envisioned by Arne Naess, Bill Devall, George Sessions and Timothy W. Luke have been used as theoretical parameters to analyze the primary text. As the focus of the deep ecological trend, the uniformity between the human self and nature is represented in this text. This uniformity restores the significance of realizing the self with nature. This realization leads to the fusion. The fusion combines harmonious relationship between the self and nature to form a single entity. Due to this process, the selected primary text merges human beings and natural sublimity by means of a nightingale bird. When human beings cannot make positive attitude towards nature and act accordingly, their self does not get chance to be attached with nature. Nature is essential for all entities. The destruction of natural world causes the destruction of self. This destruction gets a solution only when there arises symbiotic bonding between human beings and nature. This bonding adds new knowledge in the existing scholarship being itself different from the previous research works.

How Applicable is the Idea of Deep Ecology in the African Context?

In this paper, I outlined and discussed the idea of deep ecology as defended by Arne Næss (1973) as well as Bill Devall and George Sessions (1985). I especially looked at how deep ecology has responded to the dominant view in ecological ethics, especially its attendant theory – anthropocentrism or homo-centrism or simply the reason-based account – which I outlined and explained in the first section of this paper. In the final analysis, I looked at the feasibility (or lack thereof) of applying deep ecology in Sub-Saharan African ecological contexts focusing particularly on the Shona ecological matrix of Zimbabwe. My intention was to answer the question: How applicable is the idea of deep ecology in the African context? Having reviewed Zimbabwean literature, I came to the conclusion that the Shona enviro nment had a different form of deep ecology that was not only anchored on spirituality but that it also interpreted cosmology and ecology from a communitarian viewpoint.Keywords: Deep ecology, the dominant view, anthropocentrism, spirituality, the human world, the non-human world

Different Shades of Green

Adamson, Joni, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein, eds. 2002. The Environmental justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. $45.00 hc. $22.95 sc. c + 395 pp.Gilcrest, David. W 2002. Greening the Lyre: Environmental Poetics and Ethics. Reno: University of Nevada Press. $34.95 hc. xii + 169 pp.Rosendale, Steven, ed. 2002. The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. $39.95 hc. $19.95 sc. xxix + 275 pp.The first wave of ecological cultural criticism crashed onto these shores in the 1970s and 1980s. The genesis of this wave and its subsequent diffusion into the mainstream during the 1990s is charted in Cheryl Glotfelty's introduction to the highly influential Ecocriticism Reader. As Glotfelty notes, the presiding spirit of this first wave of ecocriticism was the theory known as with its radical of anthropocentrism (1996, xxiv). Two books named deep ecology, one edited by Michael Tobias (1985) and the other written by Bill Devall and George Sessions (1985), outline the basic principles of this theory. Each collection traces the beginnings of ecology to the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess. Devall and Sessions point to Naess's ultimate norms-self-realization and biocentric equality-as the sine qua non of ecology. Naess himself contributes an essay to Tobias's collection that makes a series of contrasts between Shallow Ecology and Deep Ecology, which essentially come down to androcentrism (nature has value for humans) versus biocentrism (nature has intrinsic value). Based on this model, the first wave of ecocriticism valorized those critics, texts, and traditions that are thought to be more earth-centered than human-centered-the highest approbation is saved for the deepest shade of green.Thus, the first wave of ecocriticism embraced those environments at furthest remove from human habitation-the pastoral and the wild-as represented by a narrowly defined genre of writing. In contrast, the new wave of ecocriticism is interested in the interconnections between urban and non-urban space, humans and nonhumans, traditional and experimental genres, as well as the impact of race, class, gender, and sexuality on how we use and abuse nature. In other words, this wave of ecocriticism is concerned less with proving itself to be a shade of green than with trying to reflect the different shades of green that make up the contemporary environmental movement. Rather than taking ecology as their main theoretical investment, these works are more influenced by social urban environmentalism, and the environmental justice movement. To a greater or lesser extent, each of the three works under review is part of this new wave of ecocriticism.The focus of David Gilcrest's Greening the Lyre on contemporary poetry and the presiding sprit of Robert Frost connects it to the first wave of ecocriticism. However, drawing on the pragmatist hermeneutics of Kenneth Burke's rhetorical theory, Gilcrest's analysis, in each of his book's five chapters, of the epistemology, poetics, and ethics of environmental poetry also challenges many of the central tenets of green criticism. In the first half of Greening the Lyre, Gilcrest carefully questions the undue self-confidence of those ecopoets and ecocritics who seem to believe that they can speak for nature. Though he welcomes normative ecology's productive of homocentric values (2002, 5), Gilcrest suggests that it is an epistemological impossibility and an aesthetic error to claim certainty about what a biocentric perspective exactly entails. How, for instance, would one judge between two competing biocentric claims? Ask the earth? Hardly. As Gilcrest explains in the second chapter, the very trope of speaking nature (38) is suspect. In fact, Gilcrest refers to the notion that a poet or critic can speak for as a colonizing move that remains susceptible to serious epistemological and ethical critique (6). …

Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered

The theory of deep ecology has had a profound effect on many environmental political movements over the past generation. While this notion was first advanced by Arne Naess in Western Europe, deep ecology found its broadest and most influential popularization, especially in North America, in the work of Bill Devall and George Sessions. Their 1985 work, Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered , outlines their vision of deep ecology, and it is an important source for anyone interested in the ethics and politics of deep ecology.

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS Get access Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy of the New Environmentalism. Edited by George Sessions. Shambhala, 1995. 488 pages. $20.00. Knut A. Jacobsen Knut A. Jacobsen University of Bergen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 4, WINTER 1998, Pages 967–969, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/66.4.967 Published: 01 December 1998

Book Reviews

Rivers of the United States. Ruth Patrick. Reviewed by William H. Renwick, Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Fire in the Environment: The Ecological, Atmospheric, and Climatic Importance of Vegetation Fires. P. J. Crutzen and J. G. Goldammer, eds. Reviewed by C. Mark Cowell, Department of Geography, Geology and Anthropology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crises. Joni Seager. Reviewed by Suzanne M. Michel and Sarah J. Halvorson, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder. Deep Ecology for the 27st Century. George Sessions, ed. Reviewed by David Zurick, Department of Geography and Planning, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky. American Technological Sublime. David E. Nye. Reviewed by Patrick McCreevy, Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth Science, Clarion University, Clarion, Pennsylvania. The National Parks Compromised: Pork Barrel Politics and America's Treasures. James M. Ridenour. Our National Park System: Caring for America's Greatest Natural and Historic Treasures. Dwight F. Rettie. Reviewed by Lary M. Dilsaver, Department of Geology and Geography, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama. Naturalist. Edward O. Wilson. Reviewed by Paul F. Starrs, Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada. African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives. Dennis D. Cordell and Joel W. Gregory, eds. Reviewed by Mohamed B. Ibrahim, Department of Geology and Geography, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, New York. Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity. Norman N. Miller and Rodger Yeager. Reviewed by Ted Bernard, Department of Geography, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Women and Work in South Asia: Regional Patterns and Perspectives. Saraswati Raju and Deipica Bagchi, eds. Reviewed by Carolyn V. Prorok, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Postmodernism & Social Inquiry. David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana, eds. Reviewed by Matthew C. Hannah, Department of Geography, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Metropolis: Centre and Symbol of Our Times. Philip Kasinitz, ed. Reviewed by Timothy J. Bailey, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition. Julie K. Brown. Reviewed by Robert W. Rydell, Department of History, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. The Canyon Revisited: A Rephotography of the Grand Canyon, 1923/1991. Donald Baars, Rex C. Buchanan, with rephotography by John R. Charlton. Reviewed by Thomas R. Vale, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Atlas of Religious Change in America, 1952-1990. Peter L. Halvorson and William M. Newman. Reviewed by David L. Clawson, Department of Geography, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. Historical Atlas of Louisiana. Charles R. Goins and John M. Caldwell. Reviewed by Rocky L. Sexton, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Atlas of Micronesia. Bruce G. Karolle. Reviewed by: Lincoln A. DeBunce, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Documentary Archaeology in the New World. Mary C. Beaudry, ed. Reviewed by Laurie A. Wilkie, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California. Innovations in GIS: Selected Papers from the First National Conference on GIS Research UK. Michael F. Worboys, ed. Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Wentz, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Geography. Peter Haggett, ed. Reviewed by Christopher L. Salter, Department of Geography, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

Annotated Bibliography

The article presents a list of books relating to the field of organizations and natural environment, including “Deep Ecology for the 21st Century,” edited by George Sessions, “Economy of Nature: Rethinking the Connections between Ecology and Economics,” by William Ashworth, and “Lean and Clean Management: How to Boost Profits and Productivity by Reducing Pollution, by Joseph J. Romm.

THE WILDERNESS CONDITION: ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENT AND CIVILIZATION

Review by R. James Tobin Head of Acquisitions, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO Box 604, Milwaukee WI 53201-0604. USA. THE WILDERNESS CONDITION: ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENT AND CIVILIZATION. Edited by Max Oelschlaeger. Washington, D.C. and Covelo, CA: Island Press, c.1992. 345 pp. US$16.00 paper ISBN: 1-55963-190-2. Recycled, acid-free paper. First presented at an interdisciplinary conference on wilderness and civilization in Colorado during 1989, this collection of essays is intended to reach a general audience. In one of these essays, The Etiquette of Freedom , the poet Gary Snyder, author of TURTLE ISLAND and other books, presents, with exquisite sensitivity to language, the many meanings of wild, wilderness, nature, and natural, along with the positive and negative feelings these terms evoke. This essay is one of the best in the collection. Max Oelschlaeger, in Wilderness, Civilization and Language , writes perceptively about Snyder, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Thoreau, especially in contrast with Emerson. Thoreau and Muir found wilderness inherently valuable and developed in the nineteenth century the kind of viewpoint that has recently come to be called ecocentrism or deep ecological consciousness. This is in extreme contrast with the views of Gifford Pinchot, founder of the U. S. Forest Service, who saw trees and forests only as resources to be exploited. George Sessions, in Ecocentrism, Wilderness and Global Ecosystem Protection, outlines these differences and then distinguishes eleven reasons for protecting wilderness and wild species. He goes on to discuss radical ecosystem protection zoning proposals made by such people as David Brower, Eugene Odum, Arne Naess, Paul Shepard and others. The most extreme of these proposals would restore central North America to a wilderness condition. The likelihood of this happening would seem to be near the vanishing point of probability, of course, but the political aspects are not discussed here. Aldo Leopold represents a middle view--or a developing range of views in a constant state of tension. He developed a conservation ethic which, as Curt Meine shows in his careful and interesting analysis, proposed conservation of wildlife for human use. However, Leopold also, increasingly, proposed and defended the preservation of nature in its wild state for its own sake. The most personal essay in the collection, by Michael Peter Cohen, centers on a mountain climbing expedition in the Grand Tetons. Dolores LaChapelle contributes an interesting account of the Chinese concept of Li or pattern in nature, which contrasts with the Western notion of laws of nature, and which apparently does not attempt to serve as an explanation of these patterns. Michael Zimmerman, in The Blessing of Otherness: Wilderness and the Human Condition, outlines some views of Heidegger, Susan Griffin and Hans Peter Duerr. Pete A.Y. Gunter discusses Descartes' view of human selfhood as separate from the human body and as apart from nature, which is seen as without value. Erazim Kohak contrasts conceptions of value with perceptions of value. Paul Shepard writes about A Post-Historic Primitivism.

Can There Be a “Humanistic” Ecology?

adherents of deep ecology and proponents of social ecology. While the debate is many-faceted, perhaps the most central issue of contention focuses on the appropriate role of humanity in its relationship to nature. Deep ecologists argue for a species egali tarianism or biocentric equality that denies any special value or rights for human beings within the whole of nature: all organ isms and entities in the ecosphere, as parts of the interrelated whole, are equal in intrinsic worth, as Bill Devall and George Sessions say. Or as the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess wrote in the 1973 essay where he coined the term deep there is a core democracy in the biosphere, such that all things in the biosphere have an equal right to live and blossom and to reach their own individual forms of... self-realization.2 Social ecology, on the other hand, stresses the unique character of humanity within nature: human beings are not a simple zoological phenomenon,... interchangeable with rodents or ants, ... merely one life-form among many, as Murray Bookchin, the anarchist ecologist who was most responsible for the development of social ecology in the early 1960s, puts it.3 In humanity, blind turns into free nature, because only humanity is capable of creatively and self-consciously evolving, while nature can only adapt. Human beings are thus the highest expression of natural evolution, its coming into self-conscious direction of its own destiny.4

The Wilderness condition: essays on environment and civilization

This book aims to introduce to a larger audience issues that are too often limited to scholarly circles. A thought-provoking collection of essays by some of the environmental movement's preeminent thinkers, The Wilderness Condition explores the dynamic tension between wild nature and civilization, offering insights into why the relationship has become adversarial and suggesting creative means for reconciliation. Contributors include Paul Shepard, Curt Meine, Max Oelschlaeger, and George Sessions.

“A Relative to All That Is”: The Eco-Hero in Western American Literature

T IM P O L A N D Radford University “ARelative toAllThatIs”:TheEco-Heroin WesternAmericanLiterature The late mythologistJoseph Campbell stated that “the most vital, most critical function of a mythology ... is to foster the centering and unfolding of the individual in integrity, in accord with . . . himself his culture ..., the universe”and “that awesome ultimate mysterywhich is both beyond and within himself and all things” (Masks 6). And according to Campbell, the ultimate success ofthe hero is based on how effectively and fully he is able to center himself in that “integrity.”The achievement of this centering, in multiple literatures and mythologies from diverse eras and cultures, is commonly reached after the hero undergoes a series of trials that occur throughout Campbell’s tripartite paradigm of the heroicjourney. That paradigm, much discussed and for some time a useful instrument for examining the mythical in literary texts, can be synopsized as such: 1) the hero, for any of a variety of reasons, departs the homeland or the known world and undertakes his journey; 2) is tried and tested throughout thejourney, thus undergoing an initiation; and 3) returns to the homeland or the known world, altered and increased, with a “boon” for the community. As previously stated, what is “most critical”for assessing the hero’s success, and most critical for my purposes here, is not the quality of the hero’sjourney but the quality of the hero’s Selfupon return from hisjourney—whether or not, as Campbell says, his “realization has been of a certain depth and import” (Masks 4) sufficient to situate him in “integrity.” The heroic Self that will result from the “successful” hero-journey is not the egocentric, isolated personality that, due to the hero’saccom­ plishments, stands above and apart from the community it serves. The heroic Selfis thatwhich achieves, through the hero’saccomplishments, atonement (as Campbell emphasizes it, “at-one-ment”) with its origins and in relation to the community it serves. Self-interest is dissolved, and 196 WesternAmerican Literature the separate, egocentric self is annihilated and replaced by a mythic, relational Self. Such a Self is situated in “integrity,” and, as Campbell demonstrates in The Hero with a ThousandFaces, the hero focuses not on “his personal fate, but the fate of mankind, of life as a whole, the atom and all the solar systems” (234), delivering him to a point at which he “gives up completely all attachment to his personal limitations, idiosyn­ crasies, hopes and fears, no longer resists the self-annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for the great at-one-ment” (237). This inclusive, relational, and mythic heroic Selfis the principal accomplishment ofthe hero’sjourney and the actual boon that he offers his community. To a certain extent, Campbell remains a bit too Eurocentric, phallocentric and anthropocentric for his paradigm to be as inclusive and effective as it could be. However, I would suggest that a synthesis of Campbell’simage of the heroic Selfwith the image of the relational Self emergent in deep ecology, or ecosophy as it is referred to here, produces a thoroughly inclusive, relational, and mythic heroic Self that is the central trait and boon ofwhat I will call the eco-hero. Ecosophy, anticipated by Aldo Leopold, defined and clarified by Arne Naess, and discussed at great length by Bill Devall, George Sessions and many others, need not be explained in detail here. Suffice it to say that, unlike mainstream ecological perspectives focusing on the preser­ vation of resources and natural beauty for the use and pleasure of the human community, ecosophy is an ontological perspective that rejects the traditional Western view of “man-in-environment.”It favors a world view that situates humanity “in integrity,” that perceives humanity as part of, not separate from, all living forms, that sees humanity in relation to the ecosphere, not upon it. In addition to the central concept of existence as relational rather than individual, ecosophy recognizes all components of the ecosphere as having intrinsic value for their own sake. This stance, accordingly, seeks and nurtures diversity and com­ plexity and fights against all forms of pollution, class hierarchy, and outside threats...

Bill Devall and George Sessions: Deep Ecology

Bill Devall and George Sessions: Deep Ecology

Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. By Bill Devall and George Sessions. (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, 1985. xi & 266 pp. Notes, appendixes, annotated bibliography. $15.95.)

<i>Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered.</i> By Bill Devall and George Sessions. (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, 1985. xi &amp; 266 pp. Notes, appendixes, annotated bibliography. $15.95.)

The critique of natural rights and the search for a non-anthropocentric basis for moral behavior

The critique of natural rights and the search for a non-anthropocentric basis for moral behavior

Many Strange Characters: Montana Frontier Tales by James Willard Schultz

266 Western American Literature Many Strange Characters: Montana Frontier Tales. By James Willard Schultz. Edited by Eugene Lee Silliman. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1982. 143 pages, $10.95.) “In a sense, this volume completes a trilogy,” writes Eugene Lee Silliman in his introduction. The trilogy is tales by James Willard Schultz which Silliman unearthed from old periodicals and has brought to light in Why Gone Those Times (1974), Floating on the Missouri (1979), both also published by the University of Oklahoma Press, and now Many Strange Characters. This time out Silliman has collected not Schultz’s tales of Indians, for which he isnoted, but his portraits of white frontiersmen. Here are wolfers on the trail of a bad bear, a sheriff trying to feather his nest with dubious taxes, soldiers at the Nez Perce retreat, crazy escapes from Indians and grizzlies, woodcutters coming to tragedy. Schultz, an Anglo who came west in 1877 for adventure and stayed to marry a Blackfoot woman and develop particular sympathy with the Blackfeet, sketches all these characters authentically, color­ fully, and with a sharp ear for frontier dialogue. Though nothing here is new, the reader will find some good detail work for the collaborative effort on the gigantic painting called the history of the Old West. WINFRED BLEVINS, Thermopolis, Wyoming A Family Likeness. By Janis Stout. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, Inc., 1982. 165 pages, $11.95.) In announcing A Family Likeness as winner of the 1982 Frank Wardlow Prize, Texas Monthly Press describes the novel as about “three generations of women whose roots are tied to the harsh, unyielding East Texas soil.” Although it embraces the lives of three McCall women, the prefatory eulogy for Florence McCall, the grandmother, suggests that the novel is primarily her story, or at least the story of her influence on the family. The first section is set in rural northeast Texas, in the general area of William Humphreys’ Home From the Hill, and Likeness can be added to the collection of what Paul Foreman has called “Red-Dirt Texas Fiction.” The East Texas tone of strident morality and “Southern gothic” enigma combined with the populist background of the 30s puts Stout in company with George Sessions Perry and his contemporaries. Stout creates in Florence McCall a heroine who thinks of herself as doing only what has to be done, who suffers setbacks and losses which she has no control over, and who has an unromantic death, viewed at the end by most of her family as a burden or, at the least, an anachronistic embarrassment. Her granddaughter Lori yearns to see her as a hero, although the tobacco juice stains on Florence’s chin are a reminder of her rural, uneducated background. Lori grows up in Ft. Worth, where the middle section of the novel is set, and so feeds on secondhand knowledge of her maternal heritage. ...

George Sessions Perry: His Life and Works by Maxine Cousins Haiton

George Sessions Perry: His Life and Works by Maxine Cousins Haiton

Southwest Writers Anthology ed. by Martin Shockley

Reviews 257 Mexico to Colorado. His life ended in Brown’s H ole in 1900, when he was shot from ambush by “regulator” Tom Horn. Accounts of Huddleston’s adventures and misadventures are scattered, fragmentary, sometimes contradictory. They suggest more than they tell, and they tease a historian with short glimpses of what must have been a sometimes heroic, sometimes pathetic, always complex man. T he dearth of reliable bio­ graphical material helps to make Huddleston a nearly fabulous figure. In One M ore R iver to Cross, W illHenry has taken Ned Huddleston’s career and set out “to follow it in spirit,to mark it in memory, to restore it to its rightful place among the classic strange true tales of the American herit­ age.” And so he has written an exciting novel that is remarkably faithfulto the known facts of the black cowboy’s early life and young manhood. Yetit is unmistakably a novel with all the usual W ill Henry gusto, drive, and crafts­ manship in characterization, action, and dialogue. As a novelist, Henry is somewhat handicapped by his fidelity to available facts. Occasionally characters are introduced who seem to be supernumeraries, unnecessary to move the story or heighten a conflict. They were discovered, one suspects, by conscientious research, and the novelist has used them because they were “really there.” But these are minor, very occasional distractions in an absorbing and unusual novel. T he dramatic resolution of the story’s final conflict could easily occasion the kind of criticism and defense recently provoked by W illiam Styron’s attempt to recreate the life of Nat Turner. Any novelist who deals with the struggles of a black man in a racist society must inevitably make hard choices in the development of character and plot. W ill Henry has faced his own choices squarely and has written a fascinating, provocative novel. E v e r e t t L. J ones, University of California, Los Angeles Southwest W riters Anthology. Edited by Martin Shockley. (Austin: SteckVaughn , 1967. 348 pages, $2.95.) Professor Shockley’s handy, soft-cover anthology overlaps and yet comple­ ments such regional collections as C. L. Sonnichsen’s Southwest in Life and Literature (1962), George Sessions Perry’s R oundup Tim e (1943), and Mabel 258 Western American Literature Major and Rebecca W. Smith’s Southwest in Literature (1929). Also, this latest Southwest anthology is a handmaiden to the first of a continuing series of critical pamphlets in Steck-Vaughn’s attractive Southwest Writers Series. In this collection of folk songs and tales, biographical and historical essays, poetry, and fiction, the state best represented is the editor’s own Texas —perhaps because Texas, along with less populated New Mexico, lures more artists than either Arizona or Oklahoma. Besides adhering to geographical stipulation—Southern Colorado but not Southern California is “Southwest”— the editor has made his selections with an objective eye to their cultural and formal values. But each selection also has passed the editor’s subjective test of memorableness. The volume’s simple-to-complex organization and full critical- histor­ ical apparatus advance its pedagogical utility, but should not alienate the general reader or Western scholar. Mountain and desert, pine and cactus, flood and drouth naturally figure as background or foreground for a variety of peoples and occupations in the Land of Extremes. Selections treating Anglos and Cattle Culture outnumbers others, but in the non-Melting Pot of the Southwest, Indian, Spanish-American, and Negro, too, have added their mite to English Southwest literature— as the efforts of John Joseph Matthews, Amcrico Paredes, and J. Mason Brewer testify. Other contributors: John C. Duval, Mary Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Charles Goodnight, Marquis James, Paul Horgan, Joseph W ood Krutch, W illiam A. Owens, George Sessions Perry, Walter Prescott Webb, Charles A. Sirengo, Stanley Vestal, John Graves, Roy Bedichek, Oliver La Farge, Ruth Averitte, Berta Hart Nance, Haniel Long, W itter Bynner, W hitney Montgomery, Vaida Montgomery, Fay Yauger, Arthur Sampley, Gene Shuford, Everett A. Gillis, Thomas Whitbread, W illiam D. Barney, George Milburn, Larry McMurtry, Conrad Richter, Fred Gipson, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Alice Marriott, Andy Adams, John Thomason, Tom Lea, O. Henry, Katherine Anne Porter...

Review: Our Fair City, by Robert S. Allen and Cities of America, by George Sessions Perry

Review: <i>Our Fair City</i>, by Robert S. Allen and <i>Cities of America</i>, by George Sessions Perry

Review: Roundup Time: A Collection of Southwestern Writing, by George Sessions Perry

Book Review| March 01 1944 Review: Roundup Time: A Collection of Southwestern Writing, by George Sessions Perry Roundup Time: A Collection of Southwestern WritingGeorge Sessions Perry Pacific Historical Review (1944) 13 (1): 101. https://doi.org/10.2307/3635768 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Roundup Time: A Collection of Southwestern Writing, by George Sessions Perry. Pacific Historical Review 1 March 1944; 13 (1): 101. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3635768 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1944 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.