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

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...

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Corporate Author: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference University of Mississippi
Other Authors: Urgo, Joseph R., Abadie, Ann J.
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004.
Series:Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha.
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Table of 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 / Danièle 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 Donária Romeiro Carvalho Inge.