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Inhabiting contemporary Southern and Appalachian literature : region and place in the twenty-first century /

The idea of place--any place--remains one of our most basic yet slippery concepts. It is a space with boundaries whose limits may be definite or indefinite; it can be a real location or an abstract mental, spiritual, or imaginary construction. Casey Clabough's thorough examination of the import...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clabough, Casey, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florida : University Press of Florida, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Getting back there: an introduction and a case study
  • Why read for place? an introduction
  • To blend in the place you're in, but with a mind to do something?: The practice of merging in James Dickey's to the White Sea
  • A matter of context: region and place
  • One writer's place: the south of George Garrett
  • Representing urban Appalachia: Fred Chappell's the gaudy place
  • The truths of William Hoffman's southern Appalachian places: the critics and his own
  • Southern Appalachian montage: reviewing books across regions (a collection)
  • Looking closer: a state of place
  • Out of space, out of time?: the Virginia novels of Julien Green
  • Hanging on to place: the self-reflexive depths of Kelly Cherry's fiction
  • Here, there, where: David Huddle's Appalachian Virginia
  • Epilogue: Writing for a place: a writers workshop for Mcdowell County, West Virginia.