Format:
183 Seiten
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781621901846
Content:
"This manuscript discusses the literary works of several West Virginia writers and how their fiction, characters, and novel settings reflect the values of this distinctively Appalachian state. Creasman also discusses varying gender roles and working class West Virginians in fiction by writers such as Breece and Ann Pancake, Benedict, McKinney, Settle, and Giardina, among others, and how these roles are often reflected in literature from West Virginia's writing community" --
Content:
Introduction. Three themes and three types of transcendence -- Davis Grubb's The night of the hunter -- Mary Lee Settle's Beulah quintet -- Breece Pancake's short fiction -- Denise Giardina's Storming heaven -- Irene McKinney's Vivid companion -- Ann Pancake's Strange as this weather has been -- Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and termite -- Pinckney Benedict's Miracle boy and other stories -- Afterword
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 167-170 und Index
,
Introduction. Three themes and three types of transcendenceDavis Grubb's The night of the hunter -- Mary Lee Settle's Beulah quintet -- Breece Pancake's short fiction -- Denise Giardina's Storming heaven -- Irene McKinney's Vivid companion -- Ann Pancake's Strange as this weather has been -- Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and termite -- Pinckney Benedict's Miracle boy and other stories -- Afterword.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
West Virginia
;
Literatur
;
Soziale Situation
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