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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 1997
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The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 1997
Dispossessed sons and displaced meaning in Faulkner's modern cosmos.(Critical essay)
June 22, 1997... ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT, ABRAHAM HAD TWO SONS: Ishmael, his first and bastard son, born of a humanly sensible compromise with fate, and Isaac, the son of divine promise born long after the hope that Abraham might bear a legitimate...
The sounds of Sanctuary: Horace Benbow's consciousness.(William Faulkner)(Critical essay)
June 22, 1997... THE SOUNDS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S SANCTUARY CREATE an unusual feeling for readers. Not only does Faulkner employ visual tools to tell his story, but he magnifies the content of the novel with the illuminating sounds that Horace Benbow hears...
The Abrahamic Mythopoeia of Sutpen's design: "notrespectability" in search of a dynasty.(Critical essay)
June 22, 1997... THE STRUCTURAL CENTERPIECE OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S Absalom, Absalom! is Thomas Sutpen's "design": his attempt to erect in Yoknapatawpha County a one-hundred-square-mile plantation replete with house, riches, "slaves, a family--incidentally of...
The two-way snake bite: the dead doctor wounds his son in William Faulkner's "The Wild Palms".(Critical essay)
June 22, 1997... THE INCESSANT HIGH SCRITCHING OF PALM TREES HANGS LIKE A DESCANT above the soundtrack of William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms). The "Wild Palms" section of the novel begins and ends with the trees rustling outside...
Imagined Edens and Lacan's lost object: the wilderness and subjectivity in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.(Critical essay)
June 22, 1997... IN GO DOWN, MOSES, WHILE TAKING PART IN HIS FIRST HUNT, Isaac McCaslin experiences an "unforgettable sense of the big woods... profound, sentient, gigantic and brooding... [a] soaring and sombre solitude." (1) Ike's concept of the wilderness...
Flem Snopes's knack for verisimilitude in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.(Critical essay)
June 22, 1997... A RECURRING THEME IN WILLIAM FAULKNER'S OEUVRE is humankind's propensity to sacrifice private integrity to "respectability." (1) This theme is clearly drawn in his treatment of Flem Snopes, the poor sharecropper-turned-clerk, in the trilogy....
Faulkner and the Artist: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1993.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... Faulkner and the Artist: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1993, edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xxviii, 344 pages. $50.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.
THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL FAULKNER AND...
Children in the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... Children in the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner, by Noel Polk. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xv, 288 pp. $37.50
ALTHOUGH NOEL POLK'S INVOLVEMENT WITH FAULKNER STARTED A long time ago, it has assuredly lost none of...
Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family, edited by Arthur F. Kinney. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. xvii, 289 pp.
FAULKNER'S ABSALOM, ABSALOM! IS A MYSTERIOUS NOVEL. COMPOSED of voices that seem ultimately to coalesce not only...
Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, Glossary and Commentary.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, Glossary and Commentary, by Stephen M. Ross and Noel Polk. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xi, 196 pp. $45.00 cloth, $17.50 paper; Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary, Glossary and Commentary,...
Compassion in Faulkner's Fiction.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... Compassion in Faulkner's Fiction, by Irene Visser. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996. 389 pp. $109.95.
To IRENE VISSER, FAULKNER'S FICTION IS GREAT because it causes the reader to experience compassion for characters in his...
William Faulkner and the Rites of Passage.(Critical essay)
June 22, 1997... William Faulkner and the Rites of Passage, by Christopher A. LaLonde. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1996. 178 pp. $25.00.
IN HIS RECENT BOOK, CHRISTOPHER LALONDE EXAMINES rites of passage in Faulkner's early fiction. Because he...
Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others, ed. Sally Wolff with Floyd C. Watkins. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xi-xvii, 196 pp. $24.95.
JAMES M. "JIMMY"...
New Essays on Go Down Moses.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... New Essays on Go Down Moses, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. viii, 159 pp. $29.95.
EACH OF THE ESSAYISTS IN CAMBRIDGE'S MOST RECENT Faulkner entry in the American Novel series appears here in top...
In Search of the Latin American Faulkner.(Book review)
June 22, 1997... In Search of the Latin American Faulkner, by Tania T. Fayen. Lanham, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1995, xii, 290 pp.
TANIA FAYEN BEGINS HER SEARCH FOR the Latin American Faulkner with an attractive--and...
Dispossessed sons and displaced meaning in Faulkner's modern cosmos.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... According to the Old Testament, Abraham had two sons: Ishmael, his first and bastard son, born of a humanly sensible compromise with fate, and Isaac, the son of divine promise born long after the hope that Abraham might bear a legitimate...
The sounds of 'Sanctuary': Horace Benbow's consciousness.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... The sounds of William Faulkner's Sanctuary create an unusual feeling for readers. Not only does Faulkner employ visual tools to tell his story, but he magnifies the content of the novel with the illuminating sounds that Horace Benbow hears...
The Abrahamic mythopoeia of Sutpen's design: "notrespectability" in search of a dynasty.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... The structural centerpiece of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! is Thomas Sutpen's "design": his attempt to erect in Yoknapatawpha County a one-hundred-square-mile plantation replete with house, riches, "slaves, a family--incidentally of...
The two-way snake bite: the dead doctor wounds his son in William Faulkner's "The Wild Palms."(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... The incessant high scritching of palm trees hangs like a descant above the soundtrack of William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms). The "Wild Palms" section of the novel begins and ends with the trees rustling outside Harry...
Imagined Edens and Lacan's lost object: the wilderness and subjectivity in Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses.' (Jacques Lacan)(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... In go down, Moses, while taking part in his first hunt, Isaac McCaslin experiences an "unforgettable sense of the big woods... profound, sentient, gigantic and brooding... [a] soaring and sombre solitude."(1) Ike's concept of the wilderness...
Flem Snopes's knack for verisimilitude in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... A recurring theme in William Faulkner's oeuvre is humankind's propensity to sacrifice private integrity to "respectability"(1) This theme is clearly drawn in his treatment of Flem Snopes, the poor sharecropper-turned-clerk, in the trilogy.(2)...
Faulkner and the Artist: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1993.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xxviii, 344 pages. $50.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.
The twentieth annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference was held in Oxford, Mississippi, in...
Children in the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... by Noel Polk. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xv, 288 pp. $37.50
Although Noel Polk's involvement with Faulkner started a long time ago, it has assuredly lost none of its passion and productiveness. Over the years, Polk has...
Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... Edited by Arthur F. Kinney. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. xvii, 289 pp.
Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! is a mysterious novel. Composed of voices that seem ultimately to coalesce not only with one another but also with the tale they tell, it moves...
Reading Faulkner: 'The Sound and the Fury,' Glossary and Commentary.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... By Stephen M. Ross and Noel Polk. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xi, 196 pp. $45.00 cloth, $17.50 paper.
These impressive volumes are part of the Reading Faulkner Series edited by Noel Polk and conceived by James Hinkle, who,...
Reading Faulkner: 'Sanctuary,' Glossary and Commentary.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... By Edwin T. Arnold and Dawn Trouard. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xviii, 280 pp. $45.00 cloth, $17.50 paper.
These impressive volumes are part of the Reading Faulkner Series edited by Noel Polk and conceived by James Hinkle,...
Compassion in Faulkner's Fiction.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... By Irene Visser. Lewiston, New York. Edwin Mellen Press, 1996. 389 pp. $109.95.
To Irene Visser, Faulkner's Fiction is great because it causes the reader to experience compassion for characters in his stories. It's as simple, and as complex,...
William Faulkner and te Rites of Passage.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... by Christopher A. LaLonde. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1996. 178 pp. $25-00.
In his recent book, Christopher A. LaLonde. Macon, examines rites of passage in Faulkner's early fiction. Because he sees these rites of passage as...
Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... ed. Sally Wolff with Floyd C. Watkins. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xi-xvii, 196 pp. $24.95.
James M. "Jimmy" Faulkner has been telling fascinating stories about his uncle to Faulkner students...
New Essays on 'Go Down Moses.'(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... edited by Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge: University Press, 1996. viii, 159 pp. $29.95.
Each of the essayists in Cambridge's most recent Faulkner entry in the American Novel series appears here in top form. John T. Matthews, Judith...
In Search of the Latin American Faulkner.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
June 22, 1997... by Tania T. Fayen. Lanham, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1995, xii, 290 pp.
Tania Fayen begins her search for the Latin American Faulkner with an attractive--and ambitious--outline: "my study is an exhaustive exploration...