Dean of the Faculty Joe Urgo is the editor of two new books on William Faulkner, published by University Press of Mississippi. Both are co-edited with Ann J. Abadie, associate director of Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. The books -- Faulkner and Material Culture and Faulkner's Inheritance -- are collections of essays originally presented at the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conferences in Mississippi.
Faulkner and Material Culture is a collection of essays that provides "a fresh understanding of the things Faulkner brought from the world around him to the one he created." The book is a collection of essays presented at the 31st annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in July, 2004, sponsored by the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Urgo also wrote the introduction of the book.
In "Faulkner and the Passing of the Old Agrarian Culture," 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. In other essays Katherine Henninger analyzes Faulkner's fictional representation of photographs and the function of photography within his fiction, and Kevin Railey discusses consumer goods that appear in Flags in the Dust.
Faulkner's Inheritance is a collection of essays originally presented at the 32nd Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference in July 2005. With an introduction by Joe Urgo, these essays examine the influences on Faulkner's fiction, including his own family history, Jim Crow laws, contemporary fashion, popular culture and literature. The volume includes "Atomic Faulkner" by Priscilla Wald, "Estelle and William Faulkner's Imaginative Collaboration (c. 1919-1925)," by Judith L. Sensibar, and "Faulkner's Dark House: The Uncanny Inheritance of Race," by Martin Kreiswirth.
Faulkner and Material Culture is a collection of essays that provides "a fresh understanding of the things Faulkner brought from the world around him to the one he created." The book is a collection of essays presented at the 31st annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in July, 2004, sponsored by the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Urgo also wrote the introduction of the book.
In "Faulkner and the Passing of the Old Agrarian Culture," 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. In other essays Katherine Henninger analyzes Faulkner's fictional representation of photographs and the function of photography within his fiction, and Kevin Railey discusses consumer goods that appear in Flags in the Dust.
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