The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 1998

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 1998

William Spratling, William Faulkner and Other Famous Creoles(*).
June 22, 1998... WHEN WILLIAM SPRATLING FIRST ARRIVED IN NEW ORLEANS in 1921 or 1922 (the date varies depending on whose account you read), he became a pioneer in the resettlement of the French Quarter, which in the late nineteenth century had deteriorated....

Absence Absolute: The Recurring Pattern of Faulknerian Tragedy.
June 22, 1998... Between the conception and the creation Between the emotion and the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long(1) At the heart of Faulknerian tragedy lies the Shadow, the absolute absence of any other and complete alienation from the...

Jim Bond's America: Denaturalizing the Logic of Slavery in Absalom, Absalom!
June 22, 1998... Despite the deep connection to the history and tragedy of the American South that permeates all of his novels, William Faulkner remains, to borrow a phrase from Lukacs, one of the most eloquent novelists of "transcendental homelessness."(1)...

Faulkner's Family Crucible: Quentin's Dilemma.
June 22, 1998... "Home is the thing worth having above everything" (William Faulkner, letter to his mother, 21 October 1918)(1) Perhaps "the family" is the most contested term in contemporary America. Evolved into a mythical construction, the family has...

A Very American Power Struggle: The Color of Rape in Light in August.
June 22, 1998... ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFIC SEXUAL SCENES OF VIOLENCE against women from William Faulkner's Light in August (1932) occurs when Joe Christmas, after having "despoiled" the "spinster" Joanna Burden for over a year, comes again to her bedroom and...

The Wages of Pulp: The Use and Abuse of Fiction in William Faulkner's The Wild Palms.
June 22, 1998... Pulp: something without strength or in a condition of fatigue or nervous exhaustion; a magazine or book using rough-surfaced paper made of wood pulp and often dealing with sensational material; tawdry or sensational writing. Cunning: art,...

Narrative Legerdemain: Evoking Sarty's Future in "Barn Burning".
June 22, 1998... Faulkner defines poetry as "SOME MOVING, passionate moment of the human condition distilled to its absolute essence."(1) If we transcribe this essence into fiction, then the teller becomes the tale. Faulkner plays continually with narrative's...

"There Was a Queen": A Question of Onomastic Difference.(William Faulkner)
June 22, 1998... And if speaking is a sort of action and has a relation to acts, is not naming a sort of action? --Plato, Cratylus "There was a Queen," first published in Scribner's in 1933, and collected in Doctor Martino and Other Stories in the...

Faulkner, Hemingway, et al.: The Emersonian Test of American Authorship.
June 22, 1998... We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials.... America is a poem in our eyes. --Emerson, "The Poet"(1) It is impossible to be a great Southern writer and a great...

Limiting the Dixie Limited: Teaching Through The Portable Faulkner(*).
June 22, 1998... The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in What the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down. -- Flannery O'Connor,...

A Conflict of Values: Alienation and Commitment in the Novels of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner.(Review)
June 22, 1998... A Conflict of Values: Alienation and Commitment in, the Novels of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner, by Grazyna Branny (Krakow: Wydawnictwo SPONSOR, 1997),198pp. Readers of both Conrad and Faulkner have sometimes found it hard to...