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Author: Robert Morgan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000-10-02
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0743204212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of stories describe the struggle of the people who settled the Blue Ridge Mountains as they undergo the transition from plowshares to bulldozers.
Author: Robert M. West
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0786448636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His many honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as television appearances (The Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards). This first book on Morgan collects appreciations and analyses by some of his most dedicated readers, including fellow poets, authors, critics and scholars. An unpublished interview with him is included, along with an essay by him on the importance of sense of place, and a bibliography of publications by and about him.
Author: Robert Morgan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002-09-04
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0743225791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bestselling author of "Gap Creek" comes the gripping story of two brothers struggling against each other and the confines of the Appalachian Mountain world of the 1920s.
Author: Linda Parent Lesher
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1476603898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.
Author: Robert Morgan
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781561450497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this breathtaking collection of stories, celebrated author and poet Robert Morgan portrays the lives and history of a strong-limbed, strong-willed people: the settlers of the Blue Ridge Mountains and their descendants. In this breathtaking collection of stories, celebrated author and poet Robert Morgan portrays the lives and history of a strong-limbed, strong-willed people: the settlers of the Blue Ridge Mountains and their descendants. Struggling to survive in an ancient mountain landscape that alternately thwarts their efforts and infuses them with joy and vitality, Morgan's people undergo the transition from the Indian skirmishes of the post-Revolutionary War era to the trailer parks of the present day. With one eye on the land itself and the other on its inhabitants, Morgan poignantly portrays a history of change, of transformation in the landscape, in humanity's relationship to the earth, and in people's relationships with each other. His intimate knowledge of the region he portrays makes this collection a valuable social history. At the same time, Morgan offers a moving theme which is universal and eternal-the majestic immutability of the earth and the heroic human struggle to live, love, and create new life. Focusing on one people in one place, Morgan addresses the themes that matter to all people in all places: birth and death, love and loss, joy and sorrow, the necessity for remembrance, and the inevitability of forgetting.
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 1787
ISBN-13: 1135355193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.
Author: Michael B. Montgomery
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 3218
ISBN-13: 1469662558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.
Author: George Hovis
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781570036965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inviting look at the influence of the yeomans small farm on six modern southern writers
Author: Robert J. Higgs
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780870498763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe two volumes of Appalachia Inside Out constitute the most comprehensive anthology of writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of approximately two hundred authors.
Author: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0226829626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Joel Roberts Poinsett is one of those figures who show up all across the expanding United States in the early nineteenth century. His career culminated as Secretary of War but also encompassed time as a secret agent in South America, ambassador to Mexico, South Carolina state legislator, and US Congressman-as well as as a naturalist and namesake of the poinsettia, which he stole from Mexico. While Poinsett was not an ideologue with a master plan, his consistently self-interested actions reveal an America defined by selfishness, cruelty, greed-and the use of federal power in support of them"--
