Community across time : Robert Morgan's words for home / Rebecca Godwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godwin, Rebecca, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morgan, Robert, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.

Morgan, Robert.

Morgan, Robert, 1944---Family.

Morgan, Robert, 1944-.

Memory in literature.

Families in literature.

Genealogy in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Appalachian Region--In literature.

Appalachian Region.

Families.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 193 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Considers the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan's explorations of memory, family history, and landscape. Provides a study of all of Morgan's fiction to date, as well as a chapter on his poetry and some reference, where appropriate, to his nonfiction. Examines the family history that informs much of this body of work, offering an extended biographical essay that ties characters and plot details to Morgan's ancestors' lives and to his own experiences growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Influences and context: Robert Morgan in literary community

Roots of a writing life: his Appalachian homes, south and north

Sixteenth- through ninteenth-century history: fictionalizing pioneers and conflicts

The family novels: two generations of paternal and maternal ancestors

More short fiction: classism, war, machine-age destruction

Poetry's place: memory, nature, science, resurrection

Final words: The Morgenland Elohist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781952271823

1952271827

OCLC:

1346943763