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Author Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (29th : 2002 : University of Mississippi)

Title Faulkner and his contemporaries / Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2002 ; edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 195 pages)
Series Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
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
Summary 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 in the most startling and insightful ways. What, then, did such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, and Walker Evans think of his work? How did his times affect and accept what he wrote?. Faulkner and His Contemporaries explores the relationship between the Nobel laureate, ensconced in
Notes Papers originally presented at the 29th Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Contemporaries -- Congresses
SUBJECT Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Modernism (Literature) -- United States -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Contemporaries
Modernism (Literature)
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Urgo, Joseph R
Abadie, Ann J
ISBN 1423732022
9781423732020
9781604730586
1604730587
1283193345
9781283193344
9786613193346
6613193348