Faulkner and mystery : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2009 / edited by Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie.

"Faulkner and Mystery presents a wide spectrum of compelling arguments about the role and function of mystery in William Faulkner's fiction. Twelve new essays approach the question of what can be known and what remains a secret in the narratives of the Nobel laureate. Scholars debate wheth...

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Corporate Author: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference University of Mississippi
Other Authors: Trefzer, Annette, 1960-, Abadie, Ann J.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • "And you are---?" Faulkner's mysteries of race and identity / Philip Weinstein
  • The blackness of Absalom, Absalom! / Donald M. Kartiganer
  • Reading "red leaves": months, labor power, and revolutions / Richard Godden
  • "Nice believing": mystery and mysteries in Light in August / Sean McCann
  • "To survive what looked out": the forensic trail and William Faulkner's Intruder in the dust / Rachel Watson
  • The mysterious case of the Cold War imaginary: Faulkner's Intruder in the dust and Paul Bowles's The sheltering sky / Hosam Aboul-Ela
  • Critical intruders: unraveling race and mystery in Intruder in the dust / Esther Sánchez-Pardo
  • Reimagining the femme fatale: Requiem for a nun and the lessons of film noir / Susan V. Donaldson
  • Open spaces, open secrets: Sanctuary's mysterious "something" / Lisa Hinrichsen
  • Unvanquished uncertainty / Sarah Mahurin
  • Faulkner's plots / Michael Gorra
  • "it just doesn't explain": "The leg," "Mistral," Evelyn Nesbit, and the unreadable world / Noel Polk.