The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 1999

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 1999

Faulkner's Library Revisited.
June 22, 1999... A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing.... Books change like friends, like ourselves, like everything; but they are most piquant in the contrasts they provoke, when the friend who gave them and wrote them is a success, though we...

Oedipal and Prodigal Returns in Alejo Carpentier and William Faulkner(*).
June 22, 1999... Though my Flight never pass the incoming tide of this inland sea beyond the loud reefs of the final Bahamas, I am satisfied if my hand gave voice to one people's grief --Derek Walcott ("The Schooner Flight")(1) Postslavery Returns ...

Faulkner's Parable of the Cave: Ideology and Social Criticism in Light in August.
June 22, 1999... They are like us, I said. Do you think, in the first place, that such men could see anything of themselves and each other except the shadows which the fire casts upon the wall of the cave in front of them? How could they if they have to keep...

"Philosophers and Other Gynecologists": Women and the Polity in Requiem for a Nun.
June 22, 1999... "If States were men they would be cave men."(1) ALTHOUGH FAULKNER BEGAN WORKING ON A MANUSCRIPT entitled Requiem for a Nun in the mid-1930s, he did not get very far until later, when he began to wonder, he tells students at the University...

William Faulkner in Milan, 1955.
June 22, 1999... YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE HOW WILLIAM FAULKNER charmed me. When he came to Milan, we spent a whole evening talking about different ways of eating in the world. After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1949, he had later come on a goodwill tour for his...

Ophelia's Echo in Absalom, Absalom!
June 22, 1999... THE SAD TALE OF YOUNG WILLIAM FAULKNER'S REJECTION by the beautiful Lida Estelle Oldham has been thoroughly recounted by Joseph Blotner in Faulkner: A Biography,(1) where is described at some length Faulkner's rival, the accomplished Cornell...

Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996, edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999. xxii, 237 pp. $50.00 cloth, $18.00 paper; EVERY ARTIST NEEDS "a special...

My Brother Bill.(Review)
June 22, 1999... My Brother Bill, by John Faulkner, with foreword by Jimmy Faulkner, Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press, 1998. xii, 216 pp. $16.50 paper; EVERY ARTIST NEEDS "a special world of which he alone has the key," noted Andre Gide in one of his...

Faulkner's Place.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Faulkner's Place, by Michael Millgate, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xvi, 145 pp. $22.95 cloth; EVERY ARTIST NEEDS "a special world of which he alone has the key," noted Andre Gide in one of his journals. In his slim volume...

William Faulkner's Short Fiction: An International Symposium.(Review)
June 22, 1999... William Faulkner's Short Fiction: An International Symposium, edited by Hans H. Skei, Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1997. 329 pp. $34.95; EVERY ARTIST NEEDS "a special world of which he alone has the key," noted Andre Gide in one of his journals. In...

Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories, by Hans H. Skei, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xi, 263 pp. $39.95 cloth. EVERY ARTIST NEEDS "a special world of which he alone has the key," noted Andre Gide in one of his...

What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison.(Review)
June 22, 1999... What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison, by Philip Weinstein. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xxix, 237pp. $15.50 paper. $42.00 cloth. IN THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS UNFAILINGLY INTELLIGENT and generous...

Faulkner, Mississippi.(translation by Barbara Lewis and Thomas C. Spear.)(Review)
June 22, 1999... Faulkner, Mississippi, by Edouard Glissant. Translated by Barbara Lewis and Thomas C. Spear. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999. $25.00. EDOUARD GLISSANT, THE MARTINICAN NOVELIST AND INTELLECTUAL, visited Louisiana in 1989. While...