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Title The geographical imagination of Annie Proulx : rethinking regionalism / edited by Alex Hunt
Edition 1st paperback ed
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages)
Contents The insistence of geography in the writing of Annie Proulx / Alex Hunt -- The influence of the Annales school on Annie Proulx's geographical imagination / Stéphanie 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 -- 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 -- 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 holes as critical regionalist fiction / Alex Hunt -- Red desert: the history of a place, and Annie Proulx as environmental historian / Dan Flores
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Proulx, Annie -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Proulx, Annie fast
Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Regionalism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction -- Women authors
Regionalism in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Hunt, Alex
ISBN 9781461634331
1461634334