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The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx.
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E. Annie Proulx (born 1935) won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News.While she was certainly not an overnight sensatio...
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In the following positive review, St. Andrews evaluates the strengths of The Shipping News.
Lovers of language have awaited The Shipping News with an excitement comparable to that greeting each serial...
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In the following essay, Greenbaum discusses the role of teachers in establishing and perpetuating the literary canon and offers strategies for teaching The Shipping News, a novel that Greenbaum propos...
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In the following essay, Flavin discusses the symbolic imagery of knots and fragmented language in The Shipping News, drawing attention to their use in the novel to develop thematic aspects of individu...
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In the following review, Green offers a generally positive assessment of The Shipping News, while noting flaws in the book's digressive subplots and superficial characterizations.
E. Annie Prou...
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In the following positive review, Scofield evaluates the strengths of The Shipping News, calling the novel “wildly comic.”
Here is Quoyle, with a giant's chin and “a caseme...
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In the following review, Whitworth offers a negative assessment of The Shipping News.
Much American scorn has been poured on the European Art Film which improves and uplifts on government money, but c...
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In the following review, DeMont offers a positive assessment of The Shipping News.
When Vermont writer E. Annie Proulx first visited Newfoundland in the mid-1980s, she was searching for new rivers and...
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In the following review of The Shipping News, Klinkenborg commends Proulx's descriptive talent, but concludes that the novel lacks emotional depth and resonance.
There is always, of course, a d...
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In the following positive review, Rompkey praises The Shipping News for its “poetic power.”
E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a rich novel set in Newfoundland and strikingly ...
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Teaching The Shipping News
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The Shipping News Lesson Plans contain 137 pages of teaching material, including:
E. Annie Proulx
Critical Review by B. A. St. Andrews
