From a Race of Storytellers Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn Mccrumb

Name: From a Race of Storytellers Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn Mccrumb
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ISBN: 9780865548930

ISBN-10: 0865548935

ISBN-13: 9780865548930

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kimberley M. Holloway

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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: From a Race of Storytellers



Keepers of the Legends



"Serpentine Chain:" Love, Loss, and Remembrance in She Walks These Hills



"Based on a True-Story:" Using the Ballad of Frankie Silver to teach the Conventions of Narrative



The Lure of the Lore: Two Hamelin Novels by Sharyn McCrumb



Sharyn McCrumb's Use of Ballads in If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O



The Art of Sharyn McCrumb Anthropologist and Balladeer



Lot in Life - Names and Places in Sharyn McCrumb's Ballad Series



A Song to Sing: Women in Sharyn McCrumb's Ballad Series



Mythical Mountains: The Mythology of Sharyn McCrumb's Ballad Series



Gender, Class, and Regional Tradition in Sharyn McCrumb's She Walks These Hills



The Old Ways: Nora Bonesteel in the Novels of Sharyn McCrumb's Ballad Series



Melungeons in McCrumb's Fiction



The World of Sharyn McCrumb: Mountain Communities Caught within Tradition and Change



The Songcatcher: "Cosmic Possums" on the Appalachian Song Path



The Past as Present



Bibliography of Sharyn McCrumb's Novels


Index