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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 1994
A quarterly referred journal of culture of the southern United States. Articles include historical analysis, literary criticism, and original research. Published by Mississippi State University.
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The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 1994
Cross-dressing in Yoknapatawpha County. (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1994... Many of Faulkner's women characters are described by critics, and by Faulkner himself, as masculinized. Leading-edge gender theorists such as Judith Butler(1) argue that gender is no more than a cultural construct--that is, that categories of...
Gender and authorial limitation in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily." (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1994... Faulkner's extensive authorial power in "A Rose for Emily" looms evident in the design of a large Southern gothic house, in the outline of three complex generations of a Southern community, and in the development of a plot that dutifully weaves...
Faulknerian tragedy: the example of 'As I Lay Dying.' (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1994... ... the printed word that lasts over centuries
has for its skeleton tragedy or despair.
William Faulkner(1)
Warwick Wadlington's Reading Faulknerian Tragedy (1987) reminds us that Faulkner's greatest works are formal tragedies....
The abjection of Addie and other myths of the maternal in 'As I Lay Dying.' (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1994... In many ways William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying exemplifies what Susan Cole has called the paradox of mourning.(1) Cole argues that ritual tragedies reveal both reverence and revulsion towards the newly dead person, becoming "performance[s] of...
The corruption in looking: William Faulkner's 'Sanctuary' as a 'detect'ive novel. (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1994... Unhappy swimming in the fervor of summer and/or the fertility of the country comprising Blithedale, Coverdale, the removed narrator of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, returns to the city. There, through a hotel window, Coverdale can...
The riddle of 'Absalom, Absalom!': looking at the wrong blackbird? (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1994... At the center of Absalom, Absalom! there is a known fact, like a real stone enduring
centuries of words: in 1865 a man named Henry Sutpen, the son of Thomas Sutpen
and Ellen Coldfield, killed a man named Charles Bon.(1)
Taken out of...
'Absalom, Absalom!' and Faulkner's erroneous dating of the Haitian revolution. (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1994... In 1791 slaves revolted on San Domingo: "the world's richest colony" was overrun in a black revolution, whose forces "defeated the Spanish; inflicted a defeat of unprecedented proportions on the British, and then made their country the graveyard...
New Essays on "The Sound and the Fury."
June 22, 1994... The Sound and the Fury (1929) HAS ELICITED SOME OF OUR VERY best criticism of Faulkner's work. For critics, as for Faulkner, it has been the beautiful one, the heart's darling, the work that -- like Melville's doubloon -- has enabled readers to...
The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference.
June 22, 1994... by Minrose Gwin. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. xv, 189 pp.;
Faulker's fascination with the female, the feminine, the woman, women, has long been documented in his life and noticed in his literary production, and with good...
Faulkner and Southern Womanhood.
June 22, 1994... by Diane Roberts. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. xv, 246 pp.; Robbing the Mother: Women
Faulker's fascination with the female, the feminine, the woman, women, has long been documented in his life and noticed in his literary...
Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner.
June 22, 1994... by Deborah Clarke. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. xiii, 168 pp.
Faulker's fascination with the female, the feminine, the woman, women, has long been documented in his life and noticed in his literary production, and with...
Forensic Fiction: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner.
June 22, 1994... By Jay Watson. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1993. ix, 277 pp. ISBN 0-8203-1516-8.
Jay Watson begins Forensic Fictions WITH A SET OF observations -- that like the law in our lives, the law in William Faulkner's fiction "is...