Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
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  • Contributors.