Faulkner and Material Culture

Faulkner and Material Culture
Title Faulkner and Material Culture PDF eBook
Author Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 279
Release 2009-09-18
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1628468556

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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 a microcosm of the South but a very particular and quite specifically located place. Jay Watson works with literary theory, philosophy, the history of woodworking and furniture-making, and social and intellectual history to explore how Light in August is tied intimately to the region's logging and woodworking industries. Other essays in the volume include Kevin Railey's on the consumer goods that appear in Flags in the Dust. Miles Orvell discusses the Confederate Soldier monuments installed in small towns throughout the South and how such monuments enter Faulkner's work. Katherine Henninger analyzes Faulkner's fictional representation of photographs and the function of photography within his fiction, particularly in The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!.

Faulkner and Humor

Faulkner and Humor
Title Faulkner and Humor PDF eBook
Author Doreen Fowler
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 266
Release 1986
Genre Humorous stories, American
ISBN 9781617033841

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Faulkner at 100

Faulkner at 100
Title Faulkner at 100 PDF eBook
Author Donald M. Kartiganer
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 340
Release 2009-09-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1628468629

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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 essays and panel discussions 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, Absalom, Absalom!, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, and Go Down, Moses. 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 André Bleikasten calls Faulkner's abiding “singularity.”

Faulkner in Cultural Context

Faulkner in Cultural Context
Title Faulkner in Cultural Context PDF eBook
Author Donald M. Kartiganer
Publisher
Pages 344
Release 1997
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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Twelve essays that reveal the author in his relationship with his world. Papers from the 1995 Faulkner Conference held at the University of Mississippi

Faulkner and Popular Culture

Faulkner and Popular Culture
Title Faulkner and Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author Doreen Fowler
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 0
Release 1990
Genre Popular culture
ISBN 9781617035548

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William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing
Title William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Berliner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 205
Release 2022-12-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009222341

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William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing examines the many physical texts in Faulkner's novels and stories from letters and telegrams to Bibles, billboards, and even the alphabetic shape of airport runways. Current investigations in print culture, book history, and media studies often emphasize the controlling power of technological form; instead, this book demonstrates how media should be understood in the context of its use. Throughout Faulkner's oeuvre, various kinds of writing become central to characters forming a sense of the self as well as bonds of intimacy, while ideologies of race and gender connect to the body through the vehicle of writing. This book combines close reading analysis of Faulkner's fiction with the publication history of his works that together offer a case study about what it means to live in a world permeated by media.

Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture

Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture
Title Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture PDF eBook
Author Charles Hannon
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 208
Release 2012-01-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0807143855

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Throughout his career, William Faulkner produced a literary discourse remarkably contiguous with other discourses of American culture, but seldom has his work been explored as a participant in the shifts and ruptures that characterize modern discursive systems. Charles Hannon argues in his brilliant new study that the language of Faulkner's fiction is replete with the voiced conflicts that shaped America and the South from the 1920s to1950. Specifically, Hannon takes five contemporary debates -- in historiography, law, labor, ethnography, and film -- and relates them both to canonical and less-discussed texts of Faulkner. Hannon employs a theoretical middle ground between Michael Bakhtin's stylistics of the novel and Michel Foucault's model of discourse as an autonomous self-regulated domain, while also drawing from the vast critical literature on Faulkner's fiction. He begins by linking the story cycle The Unvanquished to the battle over interpretations of American history as voiced by the Nashville Agrarians on the one hand and W. E. B. DuBois on the other. Next Hannon shows how Faulkner's detective fiction of the early 1930s and portions of his novel The Hamlet were affected by the emerging schism between adherents of a new school of legal realism and those bound to a more conservative formalist jurisprudence. According to Hannon, Faulkner's great novel Absalom, Absalom! reflects in its depiction of various forms of labor one of Franklin Roosevelt's major New Deal accomplishments -- the Wagner Act of 1935 -- as well as contract disputes in the agricultural and manufacturing South and in the film studios of Hollywood. Hannon discusses Faulkner's experimentation in The Hamlet vis-á-vis the development of the ethnographic method in the field of anthropology. He concludes with a fascinating analysis of the filming of Intruder in the Dust in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. Through Hannon's keen interpretive readings, Faulkner's texts emerge as a complex "node" in the larger discursive conflicts of his time. Though he often seemed to be detached from influence, Faulkner was, Hannon reveals, intensely attentive to ideas at the fore.