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• W4248217831 abstract "atmet ci toa/itA'* *Avulhic wonAcfoabnebb¿? /Ae wcbkb c£ ^cimeb &uU by Rebecca L. Briley CHAPTER TWO The River of Earth in the Short Stories, Riddles, and Jack and the Wonder Beans The collection of other works James Still has written captures, too, the awareness of that mythic element in the lives and language of the Appalachian people that pulsates like a river of earth in the very veins of their existence. Once again, Still, through the many nameless characters of his creation, sets out on that quest whereby to justify his roots in the mountain earth, and, once again, through his careful rendering of the metaphorical language of the region, he discovers his answer to his quest, for himself and for his reader. Still's greatest fame has come, perhaps, from his connection with the short story. His first short story was published in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1936, and he was 70 awarded the O. Henry Memorial Prize for another in 1939. Some of his best short stories were included in Best American Short Stories collections in 1946, 1950, and 1952. During the years 1932 to 1939, Still's literary juices were flowing in short story composition, and there was a time when he was never absent from a current periodical: The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Atlantic Monthly,just to mention a few.^ In the late 1940's Robert Frost made it a habit of wandering in the office of the Yale Review, even, asking, When are you going to have another story by James Still?2 Still's first collection of stories was published in 1941, On Troublesome Creek, and a reworked edition of the collection was recently printed in 1976, Pattern ofa Man and Other Stories. Many of his best-loved stories, The Run for the Elbertas, in particular, remain to be collected, and a third volume is to be issued of those previously uncollected stories this October. On Troublesome Creek has been out ofprint for some time, but of the ten stories included in that collection, seven of those appear in only slightly altered form in Sporty Creek. The other three are included in the Pattern ofa Man collection. For the purpose of this chapter, only those stories exemplifying Still's mythic consciousness , and not discussed previously, will be dealt with. Mrs. Razor begins the Pattern of a Man collection and is considered by many to be Still's best work. Still himself admitted his partiality to this fine piece, calling it my best, in an issue of Mountain Life & Workß This psychological study of a six-year-old girl's fantasy that she is married to a no-good husband with several children has even caught the attention of the medical world, being published in The World of Psychoanalysis and The World Within: The Creative Mind Dealing With Psychiatric Materials.'* Dr. Joyce Hancock, Berea College, is the first critic, however, to realize the mythic connections in this work in her excellent piece, The Loss and Gain of Harmony in James Still's 'Mrs. Razor.' ^ Using the / Ching to identify the mythic language in the story, Hancock traces the theme of the work to an ancient divination on the function of The Family. Elvy's fantasy concerning her marriage to Mr. Razor has allowed the family to get out of balance: the father is frustrated that physical action cannot erase the image in Elvy's mind, and the mother clings to the hope that time will heal all loss of harmony. It is the narrator alone, who can pretend he is any man body, who is actually unaffected by Elvy's attachment. It is when brother Morg, who couldn't make-believe; he was just Morg (p.l) falls prey to seeing Elvy's predicament as truth that the real imbalance occurs, however. Like Elvy, when he finally allows himself to succumb to the fantasy, he is spellbound. Hancock even toys with the names of the children until she arrives with Morgan Ie Fay from a chanting combination of Morg and Elvy. Elvy has played the role of sorceress, and Morg is the real victim. However..." @default.
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• W4248217831 title "River of Earth: Mythic Consciousness in the works of James Still" @default.
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