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18697
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Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post wrote this review for John Ehle's novel The Winter People in 1982. In the review, Yardley discusses the appeal of the novel and the way that Ehle conveys the culture of North Carolina.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 19, 2010,
p24-25
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18764
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In this review for Wayne Caldwell's novels Cataloochee and Requiem by Fire, Chris Green examines the way in which Caldwell explores a North Carolina mountain community and how that community disbands after the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 19, 2010,
p67-69, f
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30902
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North Carolina’s diverse culture has inspired many distinctive guidebooks, including two new books on native writers, arts and agriculture. Book reviews are provided for “Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: A Guidebook” by Georgann Eubanks, and “Homegrown/Handmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails” by John F. Blair.
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30992
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Two new books by historian and third-generation tobacco grower, Billy Yeargin, recall North Carolina’s rich tobacco heritage through photographs, residents’ recollections and geographical research. In “North Carolina Tobacco: A History,” Yeargin explores the influence of tobacco on the state’s history, describing when communities were founded and built upon tobacco culture.
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31072
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Over the past 450 years, an untold number of vessels vanished off the Outer Banks without any documentation or evidence. In his newly published book, “Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks - An Illustrated Guide,” Kevin Duffus provides a visual record of shipwrecks and their legacy. True stories are told about lifesaving, salvage, rumors of wreckers, and the hundreds of forgotten shipwreck victims buried in the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
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35253
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This is a book review of “Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book.”
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Dec 1964,
p35-39
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35446
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Kathleen Morehouse wrote Rain on the Just in the latter half of the nineteenth century, about the fictional Allen family in Wilkesboro, NC. A synopsis of the novel is given, and then the elements of folklore, particularly folk speech, are identified and discussed.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p47-54
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35447
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Romulus Linney wrote Heathen Valley in 1962 about a group of peoples residing in the North Carolina Mountains and how they responded to an overly zealous missionary. The story is filled with folk speech, myths, traditional medicine, and other folk elements to portray the characters as accurately as possible.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p55-58
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35453
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Season of Fear, written by Guy Owen in 1960, is about a lonely, middle-aged man whose hindered psychological developments and sexual frustrations lead him to commit violent acts. The book is riddled with imagery pertaining to sexuality, particularly from serpents and reptiles.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p80-84
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35495
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This is a synopsis of the novel Sea-Gift, written by Edwin W. Fuller in 1873. The author of the article believes this to be the earliest example of tall tale narratives in America.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Feb 1972,
p36-41, il
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35536
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The author issues a response with some clarifications to an analysis done on her novel Rain on the Just. The analysis, done by John Foster West, was a part of a previous issue of NC Folklore, published in March 1971.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 2, May 1972,
p87-90
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35601
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In 1972, Doris Betts wrote the novel “The River to Pickle Beach,” about life in a small North Carolina town. Betts imbued her work with folkloric elements, such as superstitions and speech, native to North Carolina; in this article, Moose highlights those elements and explains some of them.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 2, May 1973,
p61-62
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35616
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By using “The Wife of Bath,” a story within Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the author takes an in-depth look at how perceptions in society may have changed the meaning of the proverbs used in the story between the 14th century and the present.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 3, Sept 1973,
p98-104
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35629
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The Foxfire Book was a collection of folklore collected by students from their grandmothers. Dorson reviews the process and outcomes of the study, which he deemed unskilled and did not meet the criteria of folklore.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 4, Nov 1973,
p157-159
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35658
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In response to a scathing review of the Foxfire book in a previous issue, Wigginton defends and addresses the criticism made about his book.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 2, May 1974,
p35-41
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