TY - BOOK AU - Higgs,Robert J. AU - Manning,Ambrose N. TI - Voices from the Hills: selected readings of Southern Appalachia SN - 9780787286736 AV - PS 551 V889 1996 PY - 1996/// PB - Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall / Hunt Publishing Company KW - American literature KW - Appalachian Region, Southern KW - Dialect literature, American KW - Literary collections KW - Mountain life N1 - "25th. anniversary edition"(cover); Include bibliographical referent (p.559-562); Part I.- Exploration and early travels: First impressions; The land and landscape: a New Eden; The first inhabitants: the noble naturals; The mythical heritage: poor white and hilbilly; Backwoods humor: tall tale and tall talk; Southern romanticism: the sublime and the beautiful; Local color: realism and romance; New dimensions of realism: renaissance in the hills; Uses of the past: the search for identity; Muse of the mountains: Appalachian poetry ---- Part II.- Echoes and reverberations: essays in criticism and culture ER -