Les paysages en creux de Breece D'J Pancake : la nature à l'épreuve de l'h/Histoire
While Pancake’s stories have been read by some critics as shaped by the strictures of the rural Appalachia where he was raised and which his fiction takes as backdrop, this paper argues that the closure they distinctly delineate is more specifically rooted in the author’s manipulation of landscape a...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Français |
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2005
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | While Pancake’s stories have been read by some critics as shaped by the strictures of the rural Appalachia where he was raised and which his fiction takes as backdrop, this paper argues that the closure they distinctly delineate is more specifically rooted in the author’s manipulation of landscape and animals as essential providers of the “unity of effect or impression” singled out by Poe as a defining trait of the short story as genre. Used as metaphor, the hollows and fauna of West Virginia are not so much contriving as they are instrumentalized by a writer whose fictions appear more crucially constrained by generic codes than by regional determinism. |
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