Faulkner and his contemporaries / Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2002 ; edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Urgo, Joseph R.

Abadie, Ann J.

Conference Name:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (29th : 2002 : University of Mississippi)

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference

Series:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

American fiction.

Modernism (Literature)--United States--Congresses.

Modernism (Literature).

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Contemporaries--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although he spent the bulk of his life in Oxford, Mississippi-far removed from the intellectual centers of modernism and the writers who created it-William Faulkner (1897-1962) proved to be one of the American novelists who most comprehensively grasped modernism. In his fiction he tested its tenets in the most startling and insightful ways. What, then, did such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, and Walker Evans think of his work? How did his times affect and accept what he wrote?. Faulkner and His Contemporaries explores the relationship between the Nobel laureate, ensconced in

Contents:

Tribute to Jimmy Faulkner / Donald M. Kartiganer

Traveling with Faulkner : a tale of myth, contemporaneity, and Southern letters / Houston A. Baker, Jr.

William Faulkner and other famous Creoles / W. Kenneth Holditch

Cather's war and Faulkner's peace : a comparison of two novels, and more / Merrill Maguire Skaggs

"Getting good at doing nothing" : Faulkner, Hemingway, and the fiction of gesture / Donald M. Kartiganer

The Faulkner-Hemingway rivalry / George Monteiro

William Faulkner and Henry Ford : cars, men, bodies, and history as bunk / Deborah Clarke

Surveying the postage-stamp territory : Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, and Ellen Douglas / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

"Blacks and other very dark colors" : William Faulkner and Eudora Welty / Daniele Pitavy-Souques

Invisible men : William Faulkner, his contemporaries, and the politics of loving and hating the South in the civil rights era; or, how does a rebel rebel? / Grace Elizabeth Hale

William Faulkner and Guimaraes Rosa: a Brazilian connection / Thomas Inge and Donaria Romeiro Carvalho Inge.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at the 29th Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-19334-5

9786613193346

1-60473-058-7

1-4237-3202-2

OCLC:

191935878