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The geographical imagination of Annie Proulx : rethinking regionalism
- Title
- The geographical imagination of Annie Proulx : rethinking regionalism / edited by Alex Hunt.
- Publication
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009], ©2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3566.R697 Z67 2009 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hunt, Alex.
- Description
- ix, 218 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. The Insistence of Geography in the Writing of Annie Proulx / Alex Hunt -- Orientations -- The Influence of the Annates School on Annie Proulx's Geographical Imagination / Stephanie Durrans -- Proulx and the Postmodern Hyperreal / Margaret E. Johnson -- 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 / Christian Hummelsund Voie -- Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands: Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes / Douglas Werden -- Geographies -- Born Under a Bad Sign: The Question of Geographical Determinism in the Hardscrabble Northern Borderlands of Heart Songs and Other Stories / Hal Crimmel -- The Corpse in the Stone Wall: Annie Proulx's Ironic New England / Kent C. Ryden -- "All the qualities o' th' isle": The Shipping News as Island Myth / Paul Chafe -- Annie Proulx's Wyoming: Geographical Determinism, Landscape, and Caricature / O. Alan Weltzien -- Westward Proulx: The Resistant Landscapes of Close Range: Wyoming Stories and That Old Ace in the Hole / Elizabeth Abele -- Directions -- Landed Bodies: Geography and Disability in The Shipping News / Jennifer Denise Ryan -- The Location of Immigration: Itinerant Communities and Cultural Hybridity in Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes / Bonnie Roos -- Brokeback Mountain as Progressive Narrative and Cinematic Vision: Landscape, Emotion, and the. Denial of Domesticity / Christopher Pullen -- Capitalism vs. Localism: Economies of Scale in Annie Proulx's Postcards and That Old Ace in the Hole / Wes Berry -- The Ecology of Narrative: Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole as Critical Regionalist Fiction / Alex Hunt -- Afterword: Red Desert: The History of a Place, and Annie Proulx as Environmental Historian / Dan Flores.
- ISBN
- 9780739123942 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739123947 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780739131626 (electronic)
- 0739131621 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2008029318
- 40016030488
- OCLC
- ocn233030405
- 233030405
- SCSB-5441391
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries