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1 online resource (xvii, 400 pages) |
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New directions : folk or hillbilly? / Cratis D. Williams -- Appalachian literature at home in this world / Jim Wayne Miller -- Jesse Stuart and James Still : mountain regionalists / Dayton Kohler -- The changing poetic canon : the case of Jesse Stuart and Ezra Pound / Charles H. Daughaday -- James Still's poetry : "the journey a worldly wonder" / Jeff Daniel Marion -- On Harriette Arnow's The dollmaker / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Christian and the classic in The dollmaker / Barbara Hill Rigney -- Social criticism in the works of Wilma Dykeman / Oliver King Jones III -- Casting a long shadow : The tall woman / Patricia Gantt -- O Beulah land : the "yaller vision" of Jeremiah Catlett / Jane Gentry Vance -- The Beulah/Canona connection : Mary Lee Settle's autobiographies / Nancy Carol Joyner -- The Appalachian homeplace as oneiric house in Jim Wayne Miller's The mountains have come closer / Don Johnson -- The mechanical metaphor : machine and tool images in The mountains have come closer / Ricky Cox -- Kin and kindness in Gurney Norman's Kinfolks: the Wilgus stories / Danny L. Miller -- "The primal ground of life" : the integration of traditional and countercultural values in the work of Gurney Norman / Timothy J. Dunn -- John Ehle and Appalachian fiction / Leslie Banner -- The power of language in Lee Smith's Oral history / Corinne Dale -- A new, authoritative voice : Fair and tender ladies / Dorothy Combs Hill -- "Where's love?" : the overheard quest in the stories of Jo Carson / Robert J. Higgs -- Family journeys in Jo Carson's Daytrips / Anita J. Turpin -- Points of kinship : community and allusion in Fred Chappell's Midquest / John Lang -- Fred Chappell's urn of memory : I am one of you forever / Hilbert Campbell -- Coming out from under Calvinism : religious motifs in Robert Morgan's poetry / John Lang -- Robert Morgan's mountain voice and lucid prose / Cecelia Conway -- Class and identity in Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven / Terry Easton -- Cormac McCarthy : restless seekers / John G. Cawelti -- Claiming a literary space : the Affrilachian poets / Theresa L. Burriss -- Nature-loving souls and Appalachian mountains : the promise of feminist ecocriticism / Elizabeth Engelhardt -- The wolves of Aegypt : John Crowley's Appalachians / Rodger Cunningham -- Supplemental notes on authors -- Contributors |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
American literature -- Appalachian Region -- History and criticism
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Appalachian Region
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Mountain life in literature.
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American literature
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
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Intellectual life
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Literature
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Mountain life in literature
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| SUBJECT |
Appalachian Region -- Intellectual life
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Appalachian Region -- In literature
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| Subject |
Appalachian Region
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Danny, 1949-
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Hatfield, Sharon, 1956-
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Norman, Gurney, 1937-
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| LC no. |
2004023207 |
| ISBN |
9780821441343 |
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0821441345 |
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