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Title Summoning the dead : essays on Ron Rash / edited by Randall Wilhelm and Zackary Vernon ; foreword by Robert Morgan.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The first book-length examination of the award-winning author of poetry and fiction firmly rooted in Appalachia.
Contents Cover; SUMMONING THE DEAD; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Hum of Resurrectionâ#x80;#x94;Raising Rash to Critical Light; PART I: THE NATURAL WORLD; Strange Agrarianisms: Transmutations of Iâ#x80;#x99;ll Take My Stand in James Dickeyâ#x80;#x99;s Deliverance and Ron Rashâ#x80;#x99;s One Foot in Eden; â#x80;#x9C;Like a dam broke openâ#x80;#x9D;: Water and Narrative in Ron Rashâ#x80;#x99;s One Foot in Eden; The Single Effect of Ron Rashâ#x80;#x99;s Environmental Vision; Fierce Ghosts, Strange Shadows: Reading Ron Rashâ#x80;#x99;s Extinct and Endangered Species through Flannery Oâ#x80;#x99;Connor.
A comfort during a hard timeâ#x80;#x9D;: Food in Ron Rashâ#x80;#x99;s Poems, Short Stories, and NovelsPART II: INTERTEXTUAL STREAMS; â#x80;#x9C;A boxed and stilled foreverâ#x80;#x9D;: Vision, Death, and Affect in the Work of Ron Rash; â#x80;#x9C;Awake in their wide pastureâ#x80;#x9D;: Formal Design in the Poems of Robert Morgan and Ron Rash; Ron Rash and Eudora Welty: Walking the Same Worn Path; The Christ-Abandoned Landscape of Rashâ#x80;#x99;s Nothing Gold Can Stay; â#x80;#x9C;Beyond genderâ#x80;#x9D;: Subversion and the Creation of Chaos in Serena and Macbeth; Rashâ#x80;#x99;s Shakespearean Ecologies: Autopoietic and Allopoietic Remediations of Macbeth in Serena.
PART III: WAR, MEMORY, VIOLENCEThe Civil War and Beyond in Appalachia: A Historiographical Essay; I am haunted stillâ#x80;#x9D;: The Shelton Laurel Massacre in Ron Rashâ#x80;#x99;s Work; The Devil at the Bottom: Southern Honor Culture in the Novels of Ron Rash; A Hun on the Loose: World War I and The Cove; Subalterns in the Hollers: Postcolonial Appalachia in Ron Rashâ#x80;#x99;s Serena and The World Made Straight; Contributors; Index.
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Subject Rash, Ron, 1953- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Rash, Ron, 1953-
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Novelists, American -- South Carolina.
Authors, American -- South Carolina.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Authors, American.
Novelists, American.
South Carolina.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Wilhelm, Randall, editor.
Vernon, Zackary, editor.
Morgan, Robert, writer of foreword.
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