The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 2005

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 2005

Lewis P. Simpson: memories and an appreciation.(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2005... AS A MEMBER OF AN NEH SUMMER SEMINAR AT LOUISIANA STATE University in 1979, I had been directed to arrive at Allen Hall on what by Louisiana standards turned out to be delightfully cool morning in early June. Loitering in the hallway near the...

He's a bitch: gender and nature in The Hamlet.
June 22, 2005... ESSAYS ABOUT WILLIAM FAULKNER'S FEMALE CHARACTERS FREQUENTLY begin with his reply to a question from an undergraduate at the University of Virginia who asked whether he found it easier to create male or female characters. Faulkner famously...

Mobile home: pragmatism and The Hamlet.(William Faulkner's The Hamlet novel)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... THE REINSTATEMENT OF PRAGMATISM, ESPECIALLY THAT VERSION associated with William James, as an essential factor in the development of the culture of American modernism is by now well underway. (1) Rather than debating the causes of this...

Eula Varner Snopes: men's monument, or more than that?(William Faulkner)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... FAULKNER'S SNOPES TRILOGY--ITS ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL landscape of the early twentieth-century South--tells us a great deal about how Southern society operates to control the lives of women. The conflict between the maintenance of...

What Faulkner (might have) learned from Joyce.(James Joyce's influence on William Faulkner's work)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... AS MICHAEL ZEITLIN AND OTHERS HAVE POINTED OUT, ONE OF THE SOURCES of Faulkner's mature art was the discovery of the "lines and nets of discursivity" generated by Freud ("Joyce"). (1) And there can be little doubt that Joyce was Faulkner's...

Faulkner and the "Doomed Wilderness" of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.(William Faulkner's environmental works)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... WHILE WILLIAM FAULKNER IS RECEIVING GROWING RECOGNITION AS AN environmental writer, the historical acuteness of his vision has yet to be fully appreciated. (1) The best-known example of the theme of human-induced environmental change in...

The Reverend Mr. Shegog's Easter sermon: preaching as communion in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... "APRIL EIGHTH, 1928," THE FOURTH SECTION OF THE SOUND AND THE FURY, begins with Easter Sunday's dawning "bleak and chill" (265). As Dilsey Gibson, the Compson family servant, emerges from her cabin, the reader sees her as if for the first time:...

"The way he looked said hush": Benjy's mental atrophy in The Sound and the Fury.(Benjy Compson)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... MOST OF THE LITERARY CRITICISM DISCUSSING THE BENJY COMPSON section of The Sound and the Fury recognizes that Benjy does not intellectually progress beyond childhood. This fact does not mean, however, that his mind remains unaltered by his...

"The voice that breathed o'er Eden": William Faulkner's unsung wedding hymn.(The Sound and the Fury)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... For David Minter, Mentor and Friend "THE VOICE THAT BREATHED O'ER EDEN," (1) SIX INCANTATORY WORDS FROM an almost forgotten matrimonial hymn, emerge and re-emerge in The Sound and the Fury, in which the phrase appears in Quentin Compson's...

Third spaces and first places: Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ and hybridity in the US South.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... SET IN THE EARLY 1960S, JUJITSU FOR CHRIST(1986), THE FIRST NOVEL BY Mississippi native Jack Butler, tells the story of Roger Wing, a born-again Christian martial-arts expert who opens a studio in Jackson, Mississippi, where he befriends the...

An interview with Jack Butler.(Interview)
June 22, 2005... IN THE MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST collection of poetry, Mississippi native Jack Butler has created a body of work as diverse as it is accomplished. In his poetry and prose, he explores territories as familiar...

The publishing history of Augusta Jane Evans's confederate novel Macaria: unwriting some lost cause myths.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... IN HIS 1884 MEMOIR FIFTY YEARS AMONG AUTHORS, BOOKS AND Publishers, New York publisher J. C. Derby, who had published Augusta Jane Evans's second novel, Beulah, in 1859, gives an account of the publishing history of Evans's third novel,...

"Bold defiance took its place"--"respect" and self-making in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... The creative artistic personality is thus the first work of the productive individual, and it remains fundamentally his chief work, since all his other works are partly the repeated expression of this primal creation--Otto Rank Art and Artist...

Crossing over: Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" as urban Western.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... Now there would be time for everything. (317) THE LAST LINE FROM KATHERINE ANNE PORTER'S "PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER" has often been interpreted as an ironic statement blanketing the bleakness that Denver, Colorado, has become for Miranda Gay...

Intersections of race and romance in the Americas: Teresa de la Parra's Ifigenia and Ellen Glasgow's The Sheltered Life.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... IFIGENIA (1924), BY THE VENEZUELAN WRITER TERESA DE LA PARRA, AND The Sheltered Life (1934), by the Virginia writer Ellen Glasgow, are novels about privileged young women torn between the expectations of their conservative families and their...

"Unable to imagine getting on without each other": Porter's fictions of interracial female friendship.(Katherine Anne Porter's short stories)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... THE OLD ORDER, A SEQUENCE OF SEVEN INTERRELATED SHORT STORIES first published intermittently from 1935 to 1941, represents a significant turning point in Katherine Anne Porter's development as an artist. (1) According to Robert Brinkmeyer,...

The Cup of Fury: the preferred title of Caroline Gordon's None Shall Look Back.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... THE TITLE OF CAROLINE GORDON'S EPIC CIVIL WAR NOVEL, NONE SHALL Look Back, comes from Nahum in the Old Testament: "But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water; yet they shall flee away. Stand! Stand! shall they cry, but none shall look back"...

Thirteen ways of kooking at a kingfish.(The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel, by Keith Perry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2004. 243 pp. $42.95. THE KINGFISH IN FICTION IS AN ANALYSIS OF THE HALF-DOZEN Mid-century novels which attended to the...

Becoming Eudora.(Early Escapades)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Eudora Welty, Early Escapades. Edited by Patti Carr Black. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2005. 150 pp. $30.00 SUZANNE MARRS'S EUDORA WELTY, A BIOGRAPHY (NY: HARCOURT, 2005) presents, with copious facts, the mature Eudora Welty; that is, in a...

Speaking of women ...(The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Hobson, Fred. The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. 217 pp. $24.95 FRED HOBSON'S THE SILENCING OF EMIL Y MULLEN AND OTHER ESSAYS collects previously published essays and offers...

Bradley, Patricia L. Robert Penn Warren's Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Bradley, Patricia L. Robert Penn Warren's Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. 163 pp. $28.00. PATRICIA L. BRADLEY EXPLORES ROBERT PENN WARREN'S LITERARY applications of the circus...

The Slavery Reader.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... The Slavery Reader, by Gad Heuman and James Walvin, eds. New York: Routledge, 2003. 800 pp. $45.95. GAD HEUMAN AND JAMES WALVIN, THE EDITORS OF THIS ANTHOLOGY OF thirty-seven articles, have examined slavery with a wide lens, spanning the...

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, by Darlene Harbour Unrue. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2005.381 pp. $30.00 cloth. IN HER PREFACE TO THIS REMARKABLY INSIGHTFUL AND READABLE biography, Darlene Unrue tells us that it was virtually...