Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Department
English
Reader 1
Cheryl Walker
Reader 2
Gayle Greene
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© 2014 Elizabeth P. Tyson
Abstract
Annie Proulx’s three Wyoming short story collections, Close Range, Bad Dirt, and Fine Just the Way It Is, tell regional stories that push against the myths surrounding the American West. Elements of Naturalism in her work reverse the paradigm of man’s dominance over the frontier. The cyclical nature of time in her stories shows the unfulfilling nature of nostalgia. She uses folk storytelling techniques to take an insider’s perspective and to utilize the subversive nature of dark humor.
Recommended Citation
Tyson, Elizabeth P., "Annie Proulx's Wyoming: Subversive Storytelling from the Bunchgrass Edge of the World" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 467.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/467
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