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Inhabiting Contemporary Southern and Appalachian Literature

Region and Place in the Twenty-First Century

By: Casey Clabough

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Inhabiting Contemporary Southern and Appalachian Literature

Region and Place in the Twenty-First Century

By: Casey Clabough

The idea of place--any place--remains one of our most basic yet slippery concepts. It is a space with boundaries whose limits may be definite or indefinite; it can be a real location or an abstract mental, spiritual, or imaginary construction. Casey Clabough’s thorough examination of the importance of place in southern literature examines the works of a wide range of authors, including Fred Chappell, George Garrett, William Hoffman, Julien Green, Kelly Cherry, David Huddle, and James Dickey. Clabough expands the definition of "here" beyond mere geography, offering nuanced readings that examine tradition and nostalgia and explore the existential nature of "place." Deeply concerned with literature as a form of emotional, intellectual, and aesthetic engagement with the local and the regional, Clabough considers the idea of place in a variety of ways: as both a physical and metaphorical location; as an important factor in shaping an individual, informing one of the ways the person perceives the world; and as a temporal as well as geographic construction. This fresh and useful contribution to the scholarship on southern literature explains how a text can open up new worlds for readers if they pay close enough attention to place.

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University Press of Florida

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0813043700

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The Warrior's Path

Reflections Along an Ancient Route

By: Casey Clabough

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Reflections Along an Ancient Route

By: Casey Clabough

I know of no other book exactly like this one, yet it is part of a tradition. One thinks of the best work of John McPhee, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard. The writing is at once eloquent, elegant, and evocative. In short, it is a beautifully written work: a genuine pleasure to read, and to re-read." -George Garrett "Casey Clabough's unique vision, his curious and important quest, his personable and earnest manner of expression draw us into his world just that engagingly. His world is our world, too, the trace our ancestors followed into the wilderness to transform a landscape into a nation. History, memoir, travel journal, meditation--The Warrior's Path is all these things at once, its firm understanding of the past made lyric with lively language. This is a volume to keep close at hand when doubts about our American destiny begin to assail. Solid, durable, and--entrancing." --Fred Chappell "This account draws us deep into an intimacy with our geography and culture, with all the triumphs, failures, and contradictions we are heir to." -Robert Morgan, author of Brave Enemies and Boone: A Biography One of North America's oldest and most storied routes, "the Warrior's Path," as it was known by the Iroquois, was formed centuries ago by migrating animals and the humans who followed them. It spanned from the Iroquois lands of what is today New York State down the Appalachian Valley system and into the Cherokee country of Tennessee and North Georgia. Casey Clabough recently set out to hike more than five hundred miles of the route from Maryland to Tennessee and, in the process, to connect history, culture, and nature to the story of his own colonial German ancestors who traversed that particular section en route to the Smoky Mountains at the close of the 1700s. The Warrior's Path is both the story of Clabough's journey and a philosophical meditation upon the extraordinary people and events that have populated the thoroughfare over the course of several centuries. Rich in energy and lore, Clabough deftly employs both his ancestors' journey and his own as springboards for understanding the path's and the region's centrality in the American experience. As he contemplates the past, Clabough conjures and evokes countless historical images: from sketches of the grand French-Indian and Revolutionary struggles to the hardscrabble circumstances of his own Appalachian ancestors. At once richly philosophical, minutely historical, and highly personal, the book invites the reader to accompany Clabough on his journey as he recounts a contemplative, provocative, and at times harrowing, experience that is sure to delight and fascinate readers. Casey Clabough is Associate Professor of English and English Graduate Coordinator at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He also serves as literature editor for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' Encyclopedia Virginia. The author of scholarly books on James Dickey and Fred Chappell, his work has appeared in Callaloo, Contemporary Literature, Shenandoah, The Hollins Critic, The Sewanee Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572336021

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Gayl Jones

The Language of Voice and Freedom in Her Writings

By: Casey Clabough

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Gayl Jones

The Language of Voice and Freedom in Her Writings

By: Casey Clabough

Gayl Jones is dedicated to the art of "verbal authenticity," stemming from her identification with her African American heritage. Amid widespread critical praise as well as pointed attacks for her controversial first two novels, Jones has shown a constantly evolving cultural consciousness. This first single-author study of Gayl Jones recovers the work of an under-examined yet immensely skillful contemporary writer. It offers a thorough examination of her technical innovations as well as her willingness to explore controversial subject matter. The book addresses such crucial themes as Afrocentrism, diasporas, mythopoesis, post-colonialism and globalization, and offers close readings of the aesthetic and political interchanges within Jones's fiction, drama, poetry, and criticism. Two interviews with Gayl Jones are included.

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McFarland

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0786433795

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9780786433797

Experimentation and Versatility

The Early Novels and Short Fiction of Fred Chappell

By: Casey Clabough

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Experimentation and Versatility

The Early Novels and Short Fiction of Fred Chappell

By: Casey Clabough

Experimentation and Versatility considers Chappell's first four novels and his short fiction - the novels chronologically and the short stories thematically - in order to demonstrate the unique range and importance of his fictional prose. Rather than inserting Chappell's fictional variables into a single theoretical formula, Clabough traces and celebrates their various and multifaceted excursions into genres as disparate as Appalachian pastoralism and experimental science fiction. Containing both an interview with Chappell and a previously unpublished short story, Experimentation and Versatility also offers new primary sources on Chappell's work, even as it contextualizes him as one of our most exciting and multi-talented contemporary writers. Investigating the complexities of Chappell's work, Clabough's study offers new ways of considering Chappell, who has been characterized variously as a Appalachian, Southern, and fantasy writer. However, as Clabough demonstrates, he is, in fact, all and none of these things - a writer of immense gifts constantly reinventing himself through his experiments in seemingly disparate genres."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Mercer University Press

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0865549451

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9780865549456

George Garrett

A Critical Biography

By: Casey Clabough

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George Garrett

A Critical Biography

By: Casey Clabough

Considering George Garrett’s life and work in the continuum of American literary history, it is perhaps most profitable to place him in the tradition of the now exceedingly rare Southern “man of letters”—he (or she) who embraces and produces literature in all its complexity and in multiple forms (novels, short stories, poems, plays, criticism, translation, editing, and so on). This kind of Southern writer, stretching back to Edgar Allan Poe, perhaps finds its best modern examples in the Nashville-based writers of the 1920s and 1930s. Chronologically, Garrett, born in 1929, probably was the most variously gifted Southern writer to arrive on the scene following Robert Penn Warren. Indeed, it is in such company that his life and work belong.

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Texas A&M University Press

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193787513X

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9781937875138

Elements

The Novels of James Dickey

By: Casey Clabough

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The Novels of James Dickey

By: Casey Clabough

Elements: The Novels of James Dickey draws upon previously undiscussed manuscripts and notes to articulate Dickey's fictional vision as it appears in his three published novels, while also examining his early unpublished fiction and post deliverance screenplays. The book's thesis follows Dickey's philosophical and verbal theorgy for his published fiction (the practice of merging), illustrating the multifaceted and layered manner in which it functions, encompassing protagonist and environment and reader and text. Just as Ed Gentry, Joel Cahill, and Muldrow assume the essence of their respective environments, the reader is subtly asked to become a part of the text while retaining cognitive independence "to blend in the place your're in, but with a mind to do something" (To the White Sea 273). Having explored the connective qualities of Dickey's published novels, the book's final chapter turns to a summary of Dickey's unpublished and largely unknown fiction. Discussing a novel manuscript, four short stories, three screenplays, and five screenplay prospecti, the chapter seeks to summarize these heretofore undiscussed works while also tracing their similarities with the published texts.

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Mercer University Press

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0865547432

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9780865547438

Creative Writing

By: Casey Clabough, PhD

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Creative Writing

By: Casey Clabough, PhD

Creative writing is arguably the ultimate form of self-expression. Ideal for anyone interested in writing (student or not), Idiot's Guides: Creative Writing helps readers master the basics of crafting compelling fiction and nonfiction stories. Various genres, including novels, short stories, plays and screenplays, poetry, book-length and article-length narrative nonfiction, memoirs, and more are covered. Content includes the fundamental elements, such as plot, character, point-of-view, setting, dialogue, style, and theme. And readers will be able to hone their writing skills and boost their creativity with writing prompts and exercises.

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Penguin

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161564525X

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Creative Writing

By: Casey Clabough, PhD

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Schooled

Life Lessons of a College Professor

By: Casey Clabourgh

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Schooled

Life Lessons of a College Professor

By: Casey Clabourgh

Clabough's rough-and-tumble road to academia reminds me in places of my own. Wrought in a stately prose and devoid of sentiment, this wise book coaches us on how to keep on going even when we're at our lowest ebb. -Harry Crews Schooled is one of those rare books that tumbles out of a genreless or cross-genre void. Read closely, it reveals a being filled with pain and haunted by a nightmare, yet infused with a heaping portion of courage which never allows him to succumb. Hell, I wish Casey Clabough had been one of my professors. -Barry Hannah What makes the teachers and professors we've encountered hated, loved, or simply forgotten? How are the most memorable ones formed into those creatures who have challenged and shaped our minds and beliefs, building up or demolishing our dearest notions? What are the things inside such beings which drive them to cultivate their minds, relentlessly contemplate the world, and care enough to impart what they have learned? English professor Casey Clabough offers unique perspective on these questions and others in recounting a powerful series of unlikely people and incidents from his own formative school years which conspired, against all odds, to shape him into a college professor. Clabough is not your father's or mother's professor; perhaps he is not even the kind of teacher to which you would elect to subject your child or yourself; but his passion for life his infectious, his experiences indelible. Whether lamenting the haunting demises of two brilliant schoolmates; emulating or struggling against the values of his groundbreaking academic feminist mother ("The Skeleton Woman"); interacting with coaches good, bad, and related; savoring the sweet pleasures and hard pains of teenage delinquency; or courageously confronting his own mortality; Clabough offers an account consistently surprising, moving, and transformative, ultimately offering the moral that how a professor, or anyone, gets "schooled"-indeed, how we all truly learn and are shaped by our experiences-has almost nothing to do with book-learning and everything to do with living.

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Belevedere Publishing

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1909224758

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The Warrior's Path

Reflections Along an Ancient Route

By: Casey Clabough

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Reflections Along an Ancient Route

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572336021

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The End of the Mountains

By: Casey Clabough

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The End of the Mountains

By: Casey Clabough

Southern writer Casey Clabough revisits the hardscrabble life of ancestor Columbus Clabough: the last of his family to live by the old Smoky Mountain ways -- ways unsuited to a modern world. In the wake of run-ins with bootleggers and Overhill Cherokee, Columbus departs to serve his country in World War I, only to return and find the mountains and himself afflicted by ravages not unlike those witnessed overseas. Bringing us into a vanished world of red wolves, chestnuts, and human way of life long forgotten, Clabough offers a powerful narrative that captures the life of his great uncle -- a life so strongly linked to the land that it reflects the changes and sufferings of the mountains. A portion of proceeds from the sale of this book will go towards The American Chestnut Foundation. IN PRAISE OF The End of the Mountains: "The End of the Mountains is a powerful, lyrical, haunting account of the lives of mountain people who survive on the threshold between a timeless wilderness and the encroaching pressures of modernity. . . By turns reminiscent of the work of William Faulkner, James Dickey, and Cormac McCarthy." -- Michael P. Branch, author of Raising Wild and Rants from the Hill.

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0996082522

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George Garrett

A Critical Biography

By: Casey Clabough

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A Critical Biography

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Gayl Jones

The Language of Voice and Freedom in Her Writings

By: Casey Clabough

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The Language of Voice and Freedom in Her Writings

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Elements

The Novels of James Dickey

By: Casey Clabough

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The Novels of James Dickey

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