| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
|---|
| Lee Smith's Narrative Style |
1993 |
295 |
In this thesis, Smith's special third-person omniscient and "downstage" narrators are explored as framing perspectives, voices of objectivity, and voices of contrived language. Her use of the first person is discussed as an Appalachian storyteller, a... |
| Horrible Literature: A Panegyric For The Novels Of Cormac McCarthy |
2008 |
327 |
This thesis is concerned with two novels of Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian and The Road. In each chapter I discuss the attempted initiation of a boy into the violent realities of the world he inhabits. In my discussion of Blood Meridian I concentrat... |
| "He Hardly Knew If He Dreamt Or Not": Altered States Of Consciousness In Suttree |
2001 |
313 |
Cormac McCarthy's novels often relate the story of characters traveling through vivid landscapes populated by bizarre, sometimes even fantastical characters and images. As his characters journey through nightmarish Appalachian hollows shadowed by unh... |
| Women's Work: A Look At The Transformative Power Of Female Labor In Appalachian Literature |
2001 |
262 |
The people of Appalachia have long been misunderstood and misrepresented. Women, in particular, have historically been shown in fiction as weak victims. I sense, in Appalachian women that I know as well as the ones I have encountered in fiction, a st... |