Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Byer, Kathryn Stripling. “On the Trail to Cold Mountain.Shenandoah 48, no. 1 (1988): 112-117.

Gantt, Patricia M., “‘Controlling the Image-Making’: Domestic Tradition and Women’s Identity in Appalachian Literature.” North Carolina Folklore Journal 42, no. 2 (1995): 91-104.

Homer, The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1998.

Knoke, Paul. “Symbolic Artistry in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain.Notes on Contemporary Literature 29, no. 2 (1999): 8-10.

McCarron, Bill and Knoke, Paul. “Images of War and Peace: Parallelism and Antithesis in the Beginning and Ending of Cold Mountain.Mississippi Quarterly 52, no. 2 (1999): 273-85.

Polk, James. “American Odyssey.” The New York Times, July 13, 1997, sec. 7.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. et. al., eds. The History of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

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