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Faulkner and material culture : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004 / edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (31st : 2004 : University of Mississippi)
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference
- Series:
- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)--Congresses.
- Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place).
- Material culture in literature--Congresses.
- Material culture in literature.
- Material culture--Southern States--Congresses.
- Material culture.
- Southern States--In literature--Congresses.
- Southern States.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Faulkner, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays by Charles S. Aiken, Katherine R. Henninger, T. J. Jackson Lears, Miles Orvell, Kevin Railey, D. Matthew Ramsey, Joseph R. Urgo, Jay Watson, and Patricia Yaeger. Photographs, lumber, airplanes, hand-hewn coffins--in every William Faulkner novel and short story worldly material abounds. The essays in Faulkner and Material Culture provide a fresh understanding of the things Faulkner brought from the world around him to the one he created. Charles S. Aiken surveys Faulkner's representation of terrain and concludes, contrary to established criticism, that to Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha was not
- Contents:
- Faulkner and the passing of the old agrarian culture / Charles S. Aiken
- The philosophy of furniture, or, Light in August and the material unconscious / Jay Watson
- Dematerializing culture : Faulkner's trash aesthetic / Patricia Yaeger
- Flags in the dust and the material culture of class / Kevin Railey
- "Touch me while you look at her" : stars, fashion, and authorship in Today we live / D. Matthew Ramsey
- Order and rebellion : Faulkner's small town and the place of memory / Miles Orvell
- Faulkner, photography, and a regional ethics of form / Katherine R. Henninger
- True and false things : Faulkner and the world of goods / T. J. Jackson Lears.
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at the 31st Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, July 25-29, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48544-X
- 9786612485442
- 1-60473-163-X
- OCLC:
- 220863616
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