Community across Time : Robert Morgan's Words for Home /

"Considers the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan's explorations of memory, family history, and landscape. Provides a study of all of Morgan's fiction to date, as well as a chapter on his poetry and some reference, where appropriate, to his nonfiction. Examines the family history that i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Godwin, Rebecca, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2023.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Morgan, Robert, > 1944- > Family.
Morgan, Robert, > 1944- > Criticism and interpretation.
Landscapes in literature.
Genealogy in literature.
Families in literature.
Memory in literature.
Appalachian Region > In literature.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Influences and context: Robert Morgan in literary community
  • Roots of a writing life: his Appalachian homes, south and north
  • Sixteenth- through ninteenth-century history: fictionalizing pioneers and conflicts
  • The family novels: two generations of paternal and maternal ancestors
  • More short fiction: classism, war, machine-age destruction
  • Poetry's place: memory, nature, science, resurrection
  • Final words: The Morgenland Elohist.

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