Title Faulkner and postmodernism : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1999 / edited by John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages) : illustrations Series Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Contents The privations of postmodernism : Faulkner as exemplar (a meditation in ten parts) / Ihab Hassan -- Postmodern intimations : musing on invisibility : William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison / Philip Weinstein -- Postmodern Yoknapatawpha : William Faulkner as usable past / John N. Duvall -- Modernist design, postmodernist paranoia : reading Absalom, Absalom! with Gravity's rainbow / Molly Hite -- "I'm the man here" : Go down, Moses and masculine identity / Terrell L. Tebbetts -- Revising The sound and the fury : Absalom, Absalom! and Faulkner's postmodern turn / Doreen Fowler -- Intertextuality, transference, and postmodernism in Absalom, absalom! : the production and reception of Faulkner's fictional world / Martin Kreiswirth -- Postvomiting : Pylon and the Faulknerian spew / Joseph R. Urgo -- Make room for Elvis / Cheryl Lester -- Faulkner by the light of a pale fire : postmodern textual scholarship and Faulkner studies at the end of the twentieth century / Philip Cohen -- My Faulkner / John Barth Summary Since the 1960s, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most famous author, has been recognized as a central figure of international modernism. But might Faulkner's fiction be understood in relation to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as well as James Joyce's Ulysses? In eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner and his fiction in light of postmodern literature, culture, and theory. The volume explores the variety of ways Faulkner's art can be used to measure similarities and differe Notes Eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses SUBJECT Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast Subject Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States -- Congresses Postmodernism (Literature) -- Mississippi -- Congresses Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) -- Congresses LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Literature Postmodernism (Literature) Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) SUBJECT Mississippi -- In literature -- Congresses Subject Mississippi United States Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Duvall, John N. (John Noel), 1956- Abadie, Ann J. LC no. 2002000638 ISBN 142373193X 9781423731931 9781604730364 1604730366 9781578064595 1578064597 9781578064601 1578064600 1283382008 9781283382007 9786613382009 6613382000

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