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Leicester Luminist Lighted Local Language and Lore

Leicester Luminist Lighted Local Language and Lore Loyal Jones Appalachian Heritage, Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2002, pp. 18-25 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2002.0005 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432715/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:32 GMT from JHU Libraries LECTURE Leicester Luminist Lighted Local Language and Lore___________________ Loyal Jones Loyal Jones presented these observations and memories for the annual Jim Wayne Miller Lecture at the Appalachian Writers Workshop, Hindman, Kentucky, July 2001 Alliteration is a literary device which calls us to attention, though it may not convey as much information as we would like. Jim Wayne Miller was from Leicester, North Carolina, pronounced Lee-cester by some natives. A luminist is an artist who studies the effects of light on colored objects. Of course, what is poetry—or any art—but the shedding of light on things? And what is a writer but one who absorbs and uses the stuff of his or her life? I chose this alliteration as part of my hope to shed a little more light on Jim Wayne's career. Jim Wayne and I were friends and colleagues for a good many years. We both studied English at Berea College (as did Jim's wife Mary Ellen), http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Leicester Luminist Lighted Local Language and Lore

Appalachian Review , Volume 30 (1) – Jan 8, 2014

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Abstract

Loyal Jones Appalachian Heritage, Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2002, pp. 18-25 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2002.0005 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432715/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:32 GMT from JHU Libraries LECTURE Leicester Luminist Lighted Local Language and Lore___________________ Loyal Jones Loyal Jones presented these observations and memories for the annual Jim Wayne Miller Lecture at the Appalachian Writers Workshop, Hindman, Kentucky, July 2001 Alliteration is a literary device which calls us to attention, though it may not convey as much information as we would like. Jim Wayne Miller was from Leicester, North Carolina, pronounced Lee-cester by some natives. A luminist is an artist who studies the effects of light on colored objects. Of course, what is poetry—or any art—but the shedding of light on things? And what is a writer but one who absorbs and uses the stuff of his or her life? I chose this alliteration as part of my hope to shed a little more light on Jim Wayne's career. Jim Wayne and I were friends and colleagues for a good many years. We both studied English at Berea College (as did Jim's wife Mary Ellen),

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

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