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To counter this damaging perspective, Wyse examines how two of Steinbeck's Salinas Valley novels develop a multifocal and multiscalar, ecospatial perspective on the troubled history of human habitation in the Salinas Valley watershed. Wyse is careful and explicit about his methodological choices, so his belief that "place-based literary criticism must read the fictional landscape realistically" (132) seems sufficiently justified. In his lucidly written new book, Lowell Wyse advances the seemingly straightforward claim that literary criticism needs "a fuller understanding of how place operates - both in the world and in the text" (3). [Extracted from the article] |
