Harriette Simpson Arnow : critical essays on her work / Haeja K. Chung, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chung, Haeja K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Mountain life in literature.

Kentucky--Intellectual life--20th century.

Kentucky.

Appalachian Region--In literature.

Appalachian Region.

Kentucky--In literature.

Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson, 1908-1986--Criticism and interpretation.

Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At her death in 1986, Harriette Simpson Arnow left a modest collection of published work: ten short stories, five novels, two non-fiction books, a short autobiography, and nineteen essays and book reviews. Although the sum is small, her writing has been examined from regionalist, Marxist, feminist, and other critical perspectives. The 1970's saw the first serious attempts to revive interest in Arnow. In 1971, Tillie Olsen identified her as a writer whose ""books of great worth suffer the death of being unknown, or at best, a peculiar eclipsing."" Joyce Carol Oates wrote in

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Arnow's Life and the Critics; Harriette Simpson Arnow's Life as a Writer; Harriette Simpson and Harold Arnow in Cincinnati: 1934-1939; Artistic Vision; Harriette Arnow's Chronicles of Destruction; Harriette Arnow's Kentucky Novels: Beyond Local Color; Harriette Arnow's Cumberland Women; Harriette Arnow's Social Histories; Individual Fiction; The Harbinger: Arnow's Short Fiction; "Fact and Fancy" in Mountain Path; "Between the Flowers": Writing beyond Mountain Stereotypes; The Central Importance of Hunter's Horn

Hunter's Horn and the Necessity of Interdependence: Re-imagining the American Hunting Tale A Portrait of the Artist as Mother: Harriette Arnow and The Dollmaker; Free Will and Determinism in Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker; American Migration Tableau in Exaggerated Relief: The Dollmaker; The Weedkiller's Daughter and The Kentucky Trace: Arnow's Egalitarian Vision; Authorial Views; Introduction to Mountain Path, First Appalachian Heritage Edition; "Some Musings on the Nature of History," The Clarence M. Burton Memorial Lecture; Fictional Characters Come to Life: An Interview

Help and Hindrances in Writing: A Lecture Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60917-252-3

OCLC:

603961841