Pieśni serca i zwodnicze żądze: naturalizm w krótkiej prozie Annie Proulx
Songs of the heart and deceptive lusts: naturalism in short prose Annie Proulx

Author(s): Maja Daniel
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Annie Proulx; regionalism; naturalism; nature writing; cultural geography; U.S. West; literary topos
Summary/Abstract: The philosophical underpinnings and existential implications of Annie Proulx’s fiction situate it in the tradition of literary naturalism. The writer portrays characters from the lower social classes, people who are unable to overcome the impasse in which they have found themselves. Far from idyllic sentiments, Proulx’s approach to the experience of place connects her to the writers associated with so-called new regionalism. She shows the degrading influence of the life amidst beautiful natural surroundings on individual human psyche. Proulx looks closely at the processes of the commodification of regional culture and interprets them as symptoms of a dangerous global tendency.

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