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Faulkner and postmodernism : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1999 / edited by John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (26th : 1999 : University of Mississippi)
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.
- Series:
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States--Congresses.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Postmodernism (Literature)--Mississippi--Congresses.
- Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)--Congresses.
- Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place).
- Mississippi--In literature--Congresses.
- Mississippi.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Faulkner, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the 1960's, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most famous author, has been recognized as a central figure of international modernism. But might Faulkner's fiction be understood in relation to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as well as James Joyce's Ulysses? In eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner and his fiction in light of postmodern literature, culture, and theory. The volume explores the variety of ways Faulkner's art can be used to measure similarities and differerent...
- Contents:
- The privations of postmodernism : Faulkner as exemplar (a meditation in ten parts) / Ihab Hassan
- Postmodern intimations : musing on invisibility : William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison / Philip Weinstein
- Postmodern Yoknapatawpha : William Faulkner as usable past / John N. Duvall
- Modernist design, postmodernist paranoia : reading Absalom, Absalom! with Gravity's rainbow / Molly Hite
- "I'm the man here" : Go down, Moses and masculine identity / Terrell L. Tebbetts
- Revising The sound and the fury : Absalom, Absalom! and Faulkner's postmodern turn / Doreen Fowler
- Intertextuality, transference, and postmodernism in Absalom, absalom! : the production and reception of Faulkner's fictional world / Martin Kreiswirth
- Postvomiting : Pylon and the Faulknerian spew / Joseph R. Urgo
- Make room for Elvis / Cheryl Lester
- Faulkner by the light of a pale fire : postmodern textual scholarship and Faulkner studies at the end of the twentieth century / Philip Cohen
- My Faulkner / John Barth.
- Notes:
- Eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-38200-8
- 9786613382009
- 1-60473-036-6
- 1-4237-3193-X
- OCLC:
- 780425723
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