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An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature Book

An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature
An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature, ...this impressive collection of essays provides an important, though too long neglected, part of American literary history. This book effectively gives Appalachian literature the serious attention it deserves. —-–Sandra L. Ballard, editor of Appalachia, An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature has a rating of 3.5 stars
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An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature, ...this impressive collection of essays provides an important, though too long neglected, part of American literary history. This book effectively gives Appalachian literature the serious attention it deserves. —-–Sandra L. Ballard, editor of Appalachia, An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature
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  • An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature
  • Written by author Danny L. Miller
  • Published by Ohio University Press, March 2005
  • "...this impressive collection of essays provides an important, though too long neglected, part of American literary history. This book effectively gives Appalachian literature the serious attention it deserves." —-–Sandra L. Ballard, editor of Appalachia
  • Many writers from the mountains have found success and acclaim outside the region, but the region itself as a thriving center of literary creativity has not been widely appreciated. The editors of An American Vein have remedied this, producing the first g
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1New directions : folk or hillbilly?1
2Appalachian literature at home in this world13
3Jesse Stuart and James Still : mountain regionalists25
4The changing poetic canon : the case of Jesse Stuart and Ezra Pound35
5James Still's poetry : "the journey a worldly wonder"49
6On Harriette Arnow's The dollmaker59
7The Christian and the classic in The dollmaker66
8Social criticism in the works of Wilma Dykeman73
9Casting a long shadow : the tall woman91
10O Beulah land : the "yaller vision" of Jeremiah Catlett104
11The Beulah/Canona connection : Mary Lee Settle's autobiographies115
12The Appalachian homeplace as oneiric house in Jim Wayne Miller's The mountains have come closer125
13The mechanical metaphor : machine and tool images in The mountains have come closer134
14Kin and kindness in Gurney Norman's Kinfolks: the Wilgus stories140
15"The primal ground of life" : the integration of traditional and countercultural values in the work of Gurney Norman158
16John Ehle and Appalachian fiction169
17The power of language in Lee Smith's Oral history184
18A new, authoritative voice : Fair and tender ladies197
19"Where's love?" : the overheard quest in the stories of Jo Carson217
20Family journeys in Jo Carson's Daytrips231
21Points of kinship : community and allusion in Fred Chappell's Midquest239
22Fred Chappell's urn of memory : I am one of you forever252
23Coming out from under Calvinism : religious motifs in Robert Morgan's poetry261
24Robert Morgan's mountain voice and lucid prose275
25Class and identity in Denise Giardina's Storming heaven296
26Cormac McCarthy : restless seekers306
27Claiming a literary space : the Affrilachian poets315
28Nature-loving souls and Appalachian mountains : the promise of feminist ecocriticism337
29The wolves of Aegypt : John Crowley's Appalachians353


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