The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx

Rethinking Regionalism
Herausgeber: Hunt, Alex

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection focuses on Annie Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, and local environments. Contributors consider Proulx's particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions and regionalism in contemporary culture and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780739123959
• ISBN-10: 0739123955
• Artikelnr.: 32250625

Autorenporträt

Edited by Alex Hunt - Contributions by Elizabeth Abele; Wes Berry; Paul Chafe; Hal Crimmel; Stéphanie Durrans; Dan Flores; Margaret E. Johnson; Christopher Pullen; Bonnie Roos; Jennifer Denise Ryan; Kent C. Ryden; Christian Hummelsund Voie; O Alan Weltzie

Inhaltsangabe

1 Table of Contents 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: The
Insistence of Geography in the Writing of Annie Proulx Part 4 I.
Orientations Chapter 5 1. The Influence of the Annales School on Annie
Proulx's Geographical Imagination Chapter 6 2. Proulx and the Postmodern
Hyperreal Chapter 7 3. Drinking the Elixir of Ownership: Pilgrims and
Improvers in the Landscapes of Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole and
The Shipping News Chapter 8 4. Postnational United States Regional
Hinterlands: Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Part 9 II. Geographies Chapter 10 5. Born Under a Bad Sign: The Question of
Geographical Determinism in the Hardscrabble Northern Badlands of Heart
Songs and Other Stories Chapter 11 6. The Corpse in the Stone Wall: Annie
Proulx's Ironic New England Chapter 12 7. "All the Qualities o' the Isle":
The Shipping News as Island Myth Chapter 13 8. Annie Proulx's Wyoming:
Geographical Determinism, Landscape, and Caricature Chapter 14 9. Westward
Proulx: The Resistant Landscape of Close Range: Wyoming Stories and That
Old Ace in the Hole Part 15 III. Directions Chapter 16 10. Landed Bodies:
Geography and Disability in The Shipping News Chapter 17 11. The Location
of Immigration: Itinerant Communities and Cultural Hybridity in Annie
Proulx's Accordion Crimes Chapter 18 12. Brokeback Mountain as Progressive
Narrative and Cinematic Vision: Landscape, Emotion, and the Denial of
Domesticity Chapter 19 13. Capitalism vs. Localism: Economies of Scale in
Annie Proulx's Postcards and That Old Ace in the Hole Chapter 20 14. The
Ecology of Narrative: Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole as Critical
Regionalist Fiction Chapter 21 Afterword: Red Desert: The History of a
Place and Annie Proulx as Environmental Historian 22 Bibliography 23 Index
24 Contributors