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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 1995
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 1995
Benjy, the reader, and Death: at the fence in 'The Sound and the Fury.'(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1995... When Andre Bleikasten tells us in The Ink of Melancholy that the first section of The Sound and the Fury, narrated by Benjy, to whom Faulkner himself refers as a "prologue," "must be read again - like an epilogue," he is not so much suggesting a...
Temple Drake and 'La parole pleine.'(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1995... In the early 1950's, William Faulkner published a work whose unusual form distinguishes it from the other texts in his oeuvre - Requiem for a Nun, which intersperses narrative prose descriptions of the development of major regional...
Faulkner's real state: land and literary speculation in 'The Hamlet.'(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1995... A series of land transactions regarding a single piece of property effectively structures The Hamlet along a real-estate continuum: the transfer of ownership of the Old Frenchman place from Varner to Snopes and then to the investment partnership...
Something new and hard and bright: Faulkner, ideology and the construction of modernism.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1995... When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off. - William Faulkner, As...
'The vehicle itself is unaware': New Criticism on the limits of reading Faulkner.
June 22, 1995... In Reading Faulkner, Wesley and Barbara Alverson Morris offer a recapitulation of New Critical attraction towards, and treatment of, William Faulkner:
[His] own public disavowels [sic] of representation and sociology, along with his...
Women, landscape and the legacy of Gilgamesh in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Go Down, Moses.'
June 22, 1995... In explaining Absalom, Absalom! to his editor Hal Smith, Faulkner said, "the theme is a man who outraged the land, and the land then turned and destroyed the man's family."(1) This seems an odd claim. The actions of Thomas Sutpen which could be...
Faulkner and gender: an annotated select bibliography, 1982-1994.(Bibliography)
June 22, 1995... This bibliography contains abbreviated descriptions of the subject matter and theoretical substance of select journal articles, essay collections and books that concern Faulkner and gender, most published and available in the United States, since...
Lost and Found in Lacan: 'Faulkner and Psychology: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1991.
June 22, 1995... "The only theory worth having is that which you have to fight off, not that which you speak with profound fluency" (p. 78), Carolyn Porter quotes Stuart Hall as saying. One wonders if its resonance was heard in August of 1991 when these uneven...
A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of William Faulkner.
June 22, 1995... This volume considers separately thirty-one of the forty-two stories Faulkner included in his Collected Stories (1950). The selection of the stories from "The Country," "The Village," "The Wilderness," and "The Middle Ground" was made, according...
Faulkner's Families: A Southern Saga.
June 22, 1995... The matters Gwendolyn Chabrier takes up in Faulkner's Families are some of the most interesting and contested currently in Faulkner studies, as a glance at the titles of her seven chapters attests: "The Southern Family Viewed by Faulkner and His...