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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453970503321

Titolo

An American vein [[electronic resource] ] : critical readings in Appalachian literature / / edited by Danny L. Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8214-4134-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerDanny <1949->

HatfieldSharon <1956->

NormanGurney <1937->

Disciplina

810.9/974

Soggetti

American literature - Appalachian Region - History and criticism

Authors, American - Homes and haunts - Appalachian Region

Mountain life in literature

Electronic books.

Appalachian Region Intellectual life

Appalachian Region In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1 New Directions""; ""2 Appalachian Literature at Home in This World""; ""3 Jesse Stuart and James Still""; ""4 The Changing Poetic Canon""; ""5 James Still's Poetry""; ""6 On Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker""; ""7 The Christian and the Classic in The Dollmaker""; ""8 Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman""; ""9 Casting a Long Shadow""; ""10 O Beulah Land""; ""11 The Beulah/Canona Connection""; ""12 The Appalachian Homeplace as Oneiric House in Jim Wayne Miller's The Mountains Have Come Closer""; ""13 The Mechanical Metaphor""

""14 Kin and Kindness in Gurney Norman's Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories""""15 The Primal Ground of Life""; ""16 John Ehle and Appalachian Fiction""; ""17 The Power of Language in Lee Smith's Oral History""; ""18 A New, Authoritative Voice""; ""19 Where's Love?""""; ""20 Family Journeys in Jo Carson's Daytrips""; ""21 Points of Kinship""; ""22 Fred Chappella's Urn of Memory""; ""23 Coming Out from Under



Calvinism""; ""24 Robert Morgan's Mountain Voice and Lucid Prose""; ""25 Class and Identity in Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven""; ""26 Cormac McCarthy""