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  1. Writers and miners
    activism and imagery in America
    Published: 2009; © 2002
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813122373; 9780813148212
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: American literature; Coal miners in literature; Coal mines and mining in literature; Mines and mineral resources in literature; Bergbauindustrie; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (288 pages)
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  2. Writers and miners
    activism and imagery in America
    Published: ©2015
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers -- some seeking a muse, others a cause -- traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film.... more

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    Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers -- some seeking a muse, others a cause -- traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rather than to the mining community, miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. He discusses activist-writers such as John Reed, Theodore Dreiser, and Denise Giardina, who assisted striking workers, and looks at the writing of miners themselves. H

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813148212; 0813148219
    Subjects: American literature; Coal miners in literature; Coal mines and mining in literature; Mines and mineral resources in literature; American literature; Mines and mineral resources in literature; Coal mines and mining in literature; American literature; Coal miners in literature; American literature; Coal miners in literature; Coal mines and mining in literature; Mines and mineral resources in literature; American literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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    Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Idiosyncratic Activism while Assisting "" The Other""; 2. Two Appalachians: Don West and Denise Giardina; 3. Coal Mining in the Novel, the Short Story, and Genre Fiction; 4. Stage and Screen; 5. Coal Mining Fiction for the Young; 6. Coal Mining and the Poetic Imagination; 7. Voices from within the Mining Community; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.