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Article Dans Une Revue Miranda : Revue pluridisciplinaire sur le monde anglophone. Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world Année : 2023

Animal Elegy in Ron Rash’s “In the Valley” (2020)

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This paper argues that Ron Rash’s 2020 return to his 2008 bestseller, Serena, and to its eponymous character’s destructive frenzy operates as a pretext for him to deal, in his own poetic way, with the devastating consequences of such ruthless exploitative behaviors and their lethal contribution to the sixth extinction. This paper shows that “In the Valley” partakes of the genre of the poetry of extinction. Focusing on the diverse ways in which the valley’s inexorable emptying is represented, it regards “In the Valley” as an animal elegy that poetically represents the inexorable extinction of numerous species.

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hal-04112534 , version 1 (31-05-2023)

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Frédérique Spill. Animal Elegy in Ron Rash’s “In the Valley” (2020). Miranda : Revue pluridisciplinaire sur le monde anglophone. Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world , 2023, 27, ⟨10.4000/miranda.52039⟩. ⟨hal-04112534⟩
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