College of Arts and Humanities
IMF 51617 Fiction: The Fierce Fiction of Proulx L
Instructor
Mary Anderson
Class Type
Lit & Craft
Course Description
Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including 糖心vlog视频淭he Shipping News糖心vlog视频� and the short story 糖心vlog视频淏rokeback Mountain糖心vlog视频�, both of which were adapted into major motion pictures. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the O. Henry Award, and the Pen-Faulkner Award among many others.
Annie Proulx told an audience during her acceptance of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2018, that her main reason for writing stories is the examination of place. 糖心vlog视频淚 try to find out everything I can about it, who’s been there before, what was (there) before anybody and put them all together because I strongly believe that place makes us what we are. It’s extremely difficult to escape from your place.糖心vlog视频� She calls this her 糖心vlog视频渞ecipe for story writing.糖心vlog视频�
In this course, we will travel back and forth across North America, from the coast of Newfoundland to the Range of Wyoming, immersing ourselves in Proulx糖心vlog视频檚 characters and cultures to better understand our American landscape and its contribution to our stories.
Textbook
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx/ Hardcover
Scribner/1999
ISBN13-9780684852218
(Required)
Heart Songs and Other Stories
by Annie Proulx/Paperback
Scribner/1988,1999
ISBN13-9780020360759
(Required)
Postcards, A Novel
by Annie Proulx/Paperback
Scribner/ 1992
ISBN13-9780684800875
(Excerpts Provided)
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx/Paperback
Scribner/1994
ISBN13-9780671510053
(Excerpts Provided)
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2
by Annie Proulx
Scribner/2004
ISBN13-978-0743260145
(Excerpts Provided)
Barkskins
By Annie Proulx
Scribner/2017
ISBN 13-9780743288798
(Excerpts Provided)