Faulkner in the twenty-first century : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2000 / edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Ann J. Abadie.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Hamblin, Robert W.

Abadie, Ann J.

Conference Name:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (27th : 2000 : University of Mississippi)

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.

Series:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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 (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Where will the study of William Faulkner's writings take scholars in the new century? What critical roads remain unexplored? Faulkner in the Twenty-first Century presents the thoughts of ten noted Faulkner scholars who spoke at the twenty-seventh annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi. Theresa M. Towner attacks the traditional classification of Faulkner's works as ""major"" and ""minor"" and argues that this causes the neglect of other significant works and characters. Michael Kreyling uses photographs of Faulkner to analyze the interrelationships

Contents:

Introduction / Robert W. Hamblin

A note on the conference

Opening remarks / Donald M. Kartiganer

The roster, the chronicle, and the critic / Theresa M. Towner

Faulkner in the twenty-first century : boundaries of meaning, boundaries of Mississippi / Michael Kreyling

William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant, and a Creole poetics of history and body in Absalom, Absalom! and A fable / Barbara Ladd

Faulkner and Spanish America : then and now / Deborah N. Cohn

Postcolonial displacements in Faulkner's Indian stories in the 1930s / Annette Trefzer

Haunting Yoknapatawpha : Faulkner and traumatic memory / Leigh Anne Duck

Faulkner's future tense : a critique of the instant and the continuum / Patrick O'Donnell

Lucas Beauchamp's choices / Karl F. Zender

Absalom, Absalom! : the difference between white men and white men / Walter Benn Michaels

Beyond the edge of the map : Faulkner, Turner, and the frontier line / Robert W. Hamblin.

Notes:

Contributions to the 27th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 2000 at the University of Mississippi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-61123-6

9786613923684

1-60473-042-0

1-4175-0695-4

OCLC:

815390051