Carol Boggess
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813174181
- eISBN:
- 9780813174815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813174181.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter explores three of Still’s long-time friendships. The first is with fellow writer Jesse Stuart and is best described as uneven but enduring. The second is with Dean Cadle who for a time ...
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This chapter explores three of Still’s long-time friendships. The first is with fellow writer Jesse Stuart and is best described as uneven but enduring. The second is with Dean Cadle who for a time was Still’s promoter, bibliographer, and literary critic. That friendship unraveled. The third is with Albert Stewart who lived in Knott County. Their relationship was positive in the 1950s and 60s but mysteriously turned negative when Still returned to Hindman from Morehead in 1970.Less
This chapter explores three of Still’s long-time friendships. The first is with fellow writer Jesse Stuart and is best described as uneven but enduring. The second is with Dean Cadle who for a time was Still’s promoter, bibliographer, and literary critic. That friendship unraveled. The third is with Albert Stewart who lived in Knott County. Their relationship was positive in the 1950s and 60s but mysteriously turned negative when Still returned to Hindman from Morehead in 1970.
Katie Hoffman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178790
- eISBN:
- 9780813178806
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0706
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Regional or ethnic modernists maintained a focus on history—especially community history—and wrote about rural, regional, or ethnic cultures. Although some regional modernists experimented with ...
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Regional or ethnic modernists maintained a focus on history—especially community history—and wrote about rural, regional, or ethnic cultures. Although some regional modernists experimented with literary style, among the Appalachian modernists literary experimentation tends to be subtle. Regional modernists differed in their response to the urban/rural divide and often found themselves wrestling with issues of cultural representation. Like mainstream modernism, there was pushback against the romanticism of the previous era, but the response of Appalachian modernists is a specific reaction to the tradition of nineteenth-century travel and local color writing in which mountain culture had been misrepresented at worst and sugar coated by sympathetic intermediaries at best.Less
Regional or ethnic modernists maintained a focus on history—especially community history—and wrote about rural, regional, or ethnic cultures. Although some regional modernists experimented with literary style, among the Appalachian modernists literary experimentation tends to be subtle. Regional modernists differed in their response to the urban/rural divide and often found themselves wrestling with issues of cultural representation. Like mainstream modernism, there was pushback against the romanticism of the previous era, but the response of Appalachian modernists is a specific reaction to the tradition of nineteenth-century travel and local color writing in which mountain culture had been misrepresented at worst and sugar coated by sympathetic intermediaries at best.
Carol Boggess
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813174181
- eISBN:
- 9780813174815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813174181.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter follows Still’s return to Lincoln Memorial and notes the positive change in his college experience during his last two years. He began his job as janitor in the library and became ...
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This chapter follows Still’s return to Lincoln Memorial and notes the positive change in his college experience during his last two years. He began his job as janitor in the library and became attached to his supervisor and mentor Iris Grannis and her husband Frank. Others influences at LMU were professors Lucia Danforth and Harrison Kroll, and fellow students Jesse Stuart and Don West. The most important connection Still made in his last year was the man who would become his patron, Guy Loomis.Less
This chapter follows Still’s return to Lincoln Memorial and notes the positive change in his college experience during his last two years. He began his job as janitor in the library and became attached to his supervisor and mentor Iris Grannis and her husband Frank. Others influences at LMU were professors Lucia Danforth and Harrison Kroll, and fellow students Jesse Stuart and Don West. The most important connection Still made in his last year was the man who would become his patron, Guy Loomis.
Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178790
- eISBN:
- 9780813178806
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant flowering in the 1970s to its high popular and critical ...
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From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant flowering in the 1970s to its high popular and critical profile in the twenty-first century, Appalachian literature can boast a long tradition of delighting and provoking readers. Yet, locating an anthology that offers a representative selection of authors and texts from the earliest days to the present can be difficult. Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd have produced an anthology to meet this need. Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures, this anthology works to provides the historical depth and range of Appalachian literature that contemporary readers and scholars seek, from Cherokee oral narratives to fiction and drama about mountaintop removal and prescription drug abuse. It also aims to challenge the common stereotypes of Appalachian life and values by including stories of multiple, often less heard, viewpoints of Appalachian life: mountain and valley, rural and urban, folkloric and postmodern, traditional and contemporary, Northern and Southern, white people and people of color, straight and gay, insiders and outsiders—though, on some level, these dualisms are less concrete than previously imagined.Less
From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant flowering in the 1970s to its high popular and critical profile in the twenty-first century, Appalachian literature can boast a long tradition of delighting and provoking readers. Yet, locating an anthology that offers a representative selection of authors and texts from the earliest days to the present can be difficult. Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd have produced an anthology to meet this need. Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures, this anthology works to provides the historical depth and range of Appalachian literature that contemporary readers and scholars seek, from Cherokee oral narratives to fiction and drama about mountaintop removal and prescription drug abuse. It also aims to challenge the common stereotypes of Appalachian life and values by including stories of multiple, often less heard, viewpoints of Appalachian life: mountain and valley, rural and urban, folkloric and postmodern, traditional and contemporary, Northern and Southern, white people and people of color, straight and gay, insiders and outsiders—though, on some level, these dualisms are less concrete than previously imagined.
