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Contents Preface 000 Introduction 000 1. New Directions: Folk or Hillbilly? Cratis D. Williams 1 2. Appalachian Literature at Home in This World Jim Wayne Miller 000 3. Jesse Stuart and James Still: Mountain Regionalists Dayton Kohler 000 4. The Changing Poetic Canon: The Case of Jesse Stuart and Ezra Pound Charles H. Daughaday 000 5. James Still's Poetry: "The Journey a Worldly Wonder" Jeff Daniel Marion 000 6. On Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker Joyce Carol Oates 000 7. The Christian and the Classic in The Dollmaker Barbara Hill Rigney 000 8. Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman Oliver King Jones III 000 9. Casting a Long Shadow: The Tall Woman Patricia Gantt 000 10. O Beulah Land: The "Yaller Vision" of Jeremiah Catlett Jane Gentry Vance 000 11. The Beulah/Canona Connection: Mary Lee Settle's Autobiographies Nancy Carol Joyner 000 12. The Appalachian Homeplace as Oneiric House in Jim Wayne Miller's The Mountains Have Come Closer Don Johnson 000 13. The Mechanical Metaphor: Machine and Tool Images in The Mountains Have Come Closer Ricky Cox 000 14. Kin and Kindness in Gurney Norman's Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories Danny L. Miller 000 15. "The Primal Ground of Life": The Integration of Traditional and Countercultural Values in the Work of Gurney Norman Timothy J. Dunn 000 16. John Ehle and Appalachian Fiction Leslie Banner 000 17. The Power of Language in Lee Smith's Oral History Corinne Dale 000 18. A New, Authoritative Voice: Fair and Tender Ladies Dorothy Combs Hill 000 19. "Where's Love?": The Overheard Quest in the Stories of Jo Carson Robert J. Higgs 000 20. Family Journeys in Jo Carson's Daytrips Anita J. Turpin 000 21. Points of Kinship: Community and Allusion in Fred Chappell's Midquest John Lang 000 22. Fred Chappell's Urn of Memory: I Am One of You Forever Hilbert Campbell 000 23. Coming Out from Under Calvinism: Religious Motifs in Robert Morgan's Poetry John Lang 000 24. Robert Morgan's Mountain Voice and Lucid Prose Cecelia Conway 000 25. Class and Identity in Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven Terry Easton 000 26. Cormac McCarthy: Restless Seekers John G. Cawelti 000 27. Claiming a Literary Space: The Affrilachian Poets Theresa L. Burriss 000 28. Nature-Loving Souls and Appalachian Mountains: The Promise of Feminist Ecocriticism Elizabeth Engelhardt 000 29. The Wolves of Aegypt: John Crowley's Appalachians Rodger Cunningham 000 Supplemental Notes on Authors 000 Contributors 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American literature -- Appalachian Region -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region -- Intellectual life.
Appalachian Region -- In literature.
Mountain life in literature.