The radiance of small things in Ron Rash's writing / Frédérique Spill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spill, Frédérique, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rash, Ron, 1953---Criticism and interpretation.

Rash, Ron.

Rash, Ron, 1953-.

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This is the e-mail autoreply that, until recently, one got within minutes when trying to get in touch with Professor Rash at Western Carolina University--a bouncing message that apparently experienced little change over time. Over the past fifteen years or so, Ron Rash has, indeed, mostly been either writing or editing a book, or touring both the United States and the world--obviously not his favorite aspect of his job as a writer, as implied by the comparison with comatose Edgar Allan Poe. He obviously enjoys cultivating the myth of his being a mountain man who is more familiar with the company of bats, frogs, or bears, for that matter, than with modern technology. What this sketchy self-portrait also reveals is that the writer has a particularly keen ear for sounds; it seems he cannot help producing assonance and alliteration (erase, displace, replace, deface): when receiving this message, there is no doubt one was being bounced back, but at least it was in music"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : portrait of an American writer

Eureka Mill, or trailing family trajectories

Finding one's voice in Among the Believers"

Raising the dead : the threat of oblivion

Amy's men, or wounded masculinity in One foot in Eden

Antagonistic representations in Saints at the River

Figures of violence in The world Made Straight : the efficacy of indirectness

Lady Macbeth in the Smoky Mountains : Shakespearean traces in Serena

Elemental poetry : Waking, or "the wind's harsh sibilance"

"Nothing but shadow land" : landscapes and mindscapes in The Cove

Something rich and strange : short story writing in the new South

"The world's understory," or renewing wonder in Above the Waterfall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781643360195

1643360191

OCLC:

1097611917