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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Béghain, Véronique
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Français
منشور في: 2005
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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الملخص: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.