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: 23. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780739123959
• ISBN-10: 0739123955
• Artikelnr.: 32250625

Autorenporträt

Alex Hunt is associate professor in the English department at West Texas A&M University.

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