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• W2764064580 abstract "Reviews 149 Western Writers Series. Numbers 11 to 15. Edited by Wayne Chatterton and James H. Maguire. (Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1974. 44-52 pages, $1.50.) H. L. Davis. No. 11. By Robert Bain. Ken Kesey. No. 12. By Bruce Carnes. Frederick Manfred. No. 13. By Joseph M. Flora. Washington Irving: The Western Works. No. 14. By Richard H. Cracroft. George Frederick Ruxton. No. 15. By Neal Lambert. The five pamphlets here under consideration effectively illustrate the virtues and vices of so restrictive a format. All are useful, and all have been written with at least reasonable care and competence; but not all will be of equal value to the sundry readers desiring a fuller understanding of the authors in question, the chief reason being the built-in limitation of conveying great gobs of information and insight via a mere 45 or 50 pages of text and bibliography. Where the author makes the best use of his spatial limitations — as does Neal Lambert in his essay on George Frederick Ruxton — the result is a highly satisfactory blend of the man, the work, and the era; where the balance, however, has not quite been achieved because of a disproportionate emphasis on one element or another of the study — as in Bruce Carnes’s discussion of Ken Kesey — the critical/bio­ graphical account is not as illuminating as it might have been. So much for generalizations; a few specific comments about each of the pamphlets will have to suffice for the individual evaluations. As presented by Robert Bain, H. L. Davis is comparable with Hawthorne, Twain, Faulkner, and Frost in that they all deal with a par­ ticular area of the country but transcend regional limitations. By constantly alluding to other American authors, mostly of the first and second ranks, Mr. Bain depicts Davis as a universal writer rather than a Western one, though he does not underplay the significance of Davis’ regional interests. Moreover, his excellent choice of passages to quote from Davis’ work should stimulate new interest in the fiction, certainly in the better-known novels and probably in the less popular ones and the essays as well. Unfortunately, however, excessive plot summary and a rather pedestrian organization dis­ tract from an otherwise accomplished resumé of Davis’ work. Had Mr. Bain focused on the more important writings and only briefly referred to the others in transitional paragraphs, he would have been able to dig more deeply and meaningfully into the major fiction. Ken Kesey’s two novels of the early 1960’s constitute the principal sub­ ject of Bruce Carnes’s monograph. His critical readings are thorough and sound, but they are also overweight for an introduction of this kind. At the total expense of biographical material and information pertaining to Kesey’s apprentice writings— are there any? — Mr. Carnes extensively analyzes and interprets Cuckoo’s Nest and Great Notion before moving into a provocative 150 Western American Literature discussion of common themes and possible approaches. Despite his evident familiarity with the fiction, irritating inaccuracies and vagueness are occa­ sionally apparent, as when he indicates that Chief Broom ultimately flees with “the other patients” instead of alone, and when he refers to Hannah Duston as an “eighteenth-century [instead of seventeenth-century] American heroine” (Carnes, pp. 8, 9) ; further, it is not clear how “psychic . . . rebirth” is suggested by the title of Kesey’s second novel, despite the refer­ ence to Leadbelly’s refrain (p. 34) ; and the word society as used to identify “the Enemy” is much too imprecise (pp. 35-36; Kesey and the Beats can get away with it, but a scholar cannot) : clearly the “others” with whom Kesey and Buber desire an “I-Thou” relationship are members of the very society that is being condemned. Mr. Carnes’s broad knowledge of the academic criticism (mostly stultifying) of the fiction is well applied in his study, though Fiedler’s Vanishing American and W. D. Sherman’s short essay on the drug experience as a key to Kesey’s novels receive more than their due share of attention. Again, the readings are imaginative and even rich, but Mr. Carnes’s partial and occasional glimpses of Kesey..." @default.
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