Diminishing Returns: Epic Motifs in John Ehle's Mountain Novels.

The article focuses on mountain novels of John Ehle imagine development of western North Carolina from the end of the 18th century to the early 1980s. It mentions he shows that his characters, like the mountains they inhabit, are multifaceted, dynamic, and changing rather than static and reimagines...

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Published in:Appalachian Journal Vol. 46; no. 3/4; pp. 244 - 261
Main Author: MANNON, ETHAN
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Published: University of North Carolina Press Spring/Summer2019
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        Land Breakers, The (Book)
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