Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578062896 ISBN 13: 9781578062898

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2000

Synopsis

Essays in centennial celebration of William Faulkner and his achievement With essays and commentaries by Andre Bleikasten, Joseph Blotner, Larry Brown, Thadious M. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Doreen Fowler, The Reverend Duncan M. Gray, Jr., Minrose C. Gwin, Robert W. Hamblin, W. Kenneth Holditch, Lothar Hoennighausen, Richard Howorth, John T. Irwin, Donald M. Kartiganer, Robert C. Khayat, Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas L. McHaney, John T. Matthews, Michael Millgate, David Minter, Richard C. Moreland, Gail Mortimer, Albert Murray, Noel Polk, Carolyn Porter, Hans H. Skei, Judith L. Sensibar, Warwick Wadlington, Philip M. Weinstein, Judith Bryant Wittenberg, and Karl F. Zender William Faulkner was born September 25, 1897. In honor of his centenary the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference of 1997 brought together twenty-five of the most important Faulkner scholars to examine the achievement of this writer generally regarded as the finest American novelist of the twentieth century. The panel discussions and essays that make up Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect provide a comprehensive account of the man and his work, including discussions of his life, the shape of his career, and his place in American literature, as well as fresh readings of such novels as The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, Absalom, Absalom!, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, and Go Down, Moses. Spanning the full range of critical approaches, the essays address such issues as Faulkner's use of African American dialect as a form of both appropriation and repudiation, his frequent emphasis on the strength of heterosexual desire over actual possession, the significance of his incessant role-playing, and the surprising scope of his reading. Of special interest are the views of Albert Murray, the African American novelist and cultural critic. He tells of reading Faulkner in the 1930s while a student at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. What emerges from this commemorative volume is a plural Faulkner, a writer of different value and meaning to different readers, a writer still challenging readers to accommodate their highly varied approaches to what Andre Bleikasten calls Faulkner's abiding ""singularity."" At the University of Mississippi Donald M. Kartiganer fills the William Howry Chair in Faulkner Studies in the department of English and Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

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About the Author:

Donald M. Kartiganer is the former William Howry Chair in Faulkner Studies in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi.|Ann J. Abadie is the former associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

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A comprehensive account of the man and his work, including discussions of his life, the shape of his career, and his place in American literature. From the 1997 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in honor of the 100th anniversary of Faulkner's birth

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1578062896
• ISBN 13: 9781578062898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Kartiganer Donald M., Abadie Ann J.