The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 1993

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 1993

Much ado about nothing: language and desire in 'The Sound and the Fury.' (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... We can thus understand the inertia characteristic of the formations of the I, and find there the most extensive definition of neurosis -- just as the captation of the subject by the situation gives us the most general formula for...

'Windy McPherson's Son' and Silent McEachern's son: Sherwood Anderson and 'Light in August.' (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... William Faulkner repeatedly praised Sherwood Anderson with generosity and enthusiasm(1), but it is only in the context of Anderson's influential role as stimulus to Faulkner's own creativity that we can understand the full implications of the...

Elements of the carnivalesque in Faulkner's "Was." (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... Many of Faulkner's commentators have noticed that behind the hilarious action of "Was" lurks the bleak reality of the plantation life of the slaves involved in the games and hunts of the story. How can a depiction of human beings as quarry and...

Trying emotions: unpredictable justice in Faulkner's "Smoke" and "Tomorrow." (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... Faulkner's "Tomorrow" and "Smoke" address several related issues. Both stories present Faulkner's well-known and recurrent character Gavin Stevens as working lawyer and professional individual, as young defense counsel in "Tomorrow" and...

Reconsidering Maggie, Charles, and Gavin in 'The Town.' (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... In The Yoknapatawpha Country, Cleanth Brooks offers the marriage of Maggie and Charles Mallison as one example of "mature sexual love" in contrast to the many examples of "frustrated love or adultery" found in Faulkner's works. The Mallison...

"This hand holds genius": three unpublished Faulkner letters. (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... In the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin are xerox copies of three undated letters from William Faulkner to his friend Ben Wasson. Written in 1924, and signed in Faulkner's unmistakable hand, the...

William Faulkner and Southern History.
June 22, 1993... Though most historians of the South offer lip-service to William Faulkner's greatness, his influence on them is far from evident. The two figures who divide modern Southern history between them -- W. J. Cash and C. Vann Woodward -- have both...

Faulkner in the Eighties: An Annotated Critical Biography.
June 22, 1993... By John E. Bassett. "Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, No. 88." Metuchen, New Jersey, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991. 322 pp. Index. There are 1,816 entries in this -- the third bibliography of work on Faulkner's life and fiction by...

"The Sound and the Fury": Faulkner and the Lost Cause.
June 22, 1993... By John T. Matthews. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xiv, 137 pp. Index; The Conception Behind the Twayne's Masterwork Studies is a sound one: new short monographs on major works which are original readings of classics, up-to-date in...

"As I Lay Dying": Stories out of Stories.
June 22, 1993... By Warwick Wadlington. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992. xiv, 123 pp. Index The Conception Behind the Twayne's Masterwork Studies is a sound one: new short monographs on major works which are original readings of classics, up-to-date in...

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns.
June 22, 1993... By Philip Weinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv, 181 pp. Philip Weinstein's Faulkner's Subject is a most splendid failure -- a failure in its design, but splendid in the range of questions it raises and the number of...

American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner.
June 22, 1993... By Jeanne Campbelll Reesman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xx, 229 pp. Reesman opens her comparative study of James and Faulkner with a statement few could contest: "It is hard to imagine Henry James and William...

Faulkner and the Short Story: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1990.
June 22, 1993... This collection of essays, originally presented at the 1990 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, constitutes a helpful addition to the debate about how Faulkner's short stories are to be read in the context of his brilliance as a novelist and...

Yoknapatawpha: The Function of Geographical and Historical Facts in William Faulkner's Fictional Picture of the Deep South.
June 22, 1993... In a canon that includes such rich fictional landscapes as Hardy's Wessex and Marquez's Macondo, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County continues to hold up extremely well. But if it holds up, it also continues to mystify in certain ways, and for very...

William Faulkner: His Lafayette County Heritage: Lands, Houses and Businesses, Oxford Mississippi.
June 22, 1993... By Jane Isbell Haynes, with a foreword by James B. Meriwether. Ripley, Mississippi: Published for the Seajay Press by the Tippah County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1992. xxiii, 90 pp. (36 pp. of photographs). Limited in the first...

Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925.
June 22, 1993... I have not urged a purchase on anyone withH the insistence I am about to here since I told a certain friend to be at the record stores when it opened to buy a cassette of "Maybe It Was Memphis." Those scholars, epistolary junkies, and...

The passion of Margaret Powers: a psychoanalytic reading of 'Soldier's Pay.' (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... Faulkner's earliest fictional women are abstract and artificial in their literary contours, their Beardsleyan poses and stylized movements shaped by the artist's self-consciously masculine preoccupations and desires. But even in such mannered...

'The Unvanquished': Faulkner's Nietzschean skirmish with the Civil War. (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1993... Yet we shall not die unregarded by the gods. A third shall come to raise oiur cause, a son resolved honouring his father's blood A great oath, sealed in sight of gods, binds him to exact Full penance for his father's...

"Light in August": A Study in Black and White.
June 22, 1993... By Alwyn Berland. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992. xv, 114 pp. Index. The Conception Behind the Twayne's Masterwork Studies is a sound one: new short monographs on major works which are original readings of classics, up-to-date in...