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The Writings of Norman MacLean: Seeking Truth Amid Tragedy

The Writings of Norman MacLean: Seeking Truth Amid Tragedy

Schilling, Timothy P.

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Series: Western Literature and Fiction

Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 1647791677
ISBN13: 9781647791674
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: Aug 20 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
With a foreword by John N. Maclean, son of Norman Maclean

The Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy provides the first critical reassessment of this celebrated author's work in more than a decade. In his study, Timothy P. Schilling focuses on Maclean's attempt, in A River Runs through It and Other Stories and Young Men and Fire, to come to grips with the tragic side of human existence. From the 1938 death of his brother Paul to the 1949 deaths of thirteen firefighters in Montana's Mann Gulch wildfire, Maclean is driven by a desire to discover ultimate meaning--the truth--in the face of haunting tragedy. Through careful analysis of all of Maclean's published works, Schilling highlights the audaciousness of Maclean's quest to wrest free an answer from the universe.

Ever open to scientific, literary, philosophical, and theological ways of viewing reality, Maclean found ambiguity, paradoxically, to be an essential tool for probing the truth. Beyond exploring Maclean's use of this tool, Schilling breaks new ground by considering Maclean's invocation of the Transcendentals in A River Runs through It, noting the sly homage Maclean pays to Izaak Walton, examining Maclean's often-neglected Other Stories, assessing Robert Redford's film adaptation of A River Runs through It, and providing the most thorough exploration of Young Men and Fire yet available.

With this book, Schilling offers a current and complete analysis of Maclean--one of the most iconic figures in Western American literature.

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