The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 2006

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 2006

James B. Meriwether: 1928-2007.(In memoriam)
June 22, 2006... JAMES B. MERIWETHER, A LONG-TIME MEMBER OF THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY editorial board and the founder of MissQ' s annual summer Faulkner issue, died Sunday, March 18, 2007, at his home in Columbia, South Carolina, following long-term...

Combatting anti-Americanism during the Cold War: Faulkner, the State Department, and Latin America (1).(American novelist William Faulkner's visits to Latin America)
June 22, 2006... IN 1950, WHEN FAULKNER WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE, HE INITIALLY declined to travel to Stockholm to pick up the award. The US ambassador to Sweden sent an urgent cable to Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressing his concern at the situation,...

Mechanization, materialism, and modernism in Faulkner's Flags in the Dust.
June 22, 2006... AFTER WORLD WAR I, THE FACTORIES THAT HAD PRODUCED TANKS AND machine guns for the trenches of Europe began producing tractors and cultivators for the farms of the United States. These advances in mechanical technology between World War I and...

Snaffles and derbies: horseracing and southern folk culture in William Faulkner's The Reivers.
June 22, 2006... GIVEN WILLIAM FAULKNER'S ENDURING FASCINATION WITH HORSES AND his enjoyment of riding, (1) it is surprising that critics have not remarked upon the significance of horses in The Reivers, his final novel. This is especially curious considering...

Evolutionary ideas in Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun.
June 22, 2006... "MIDDLEMARCH," IN HENRY JAMES'S ESTIMATION FROM 1873, "IS TOO OFTEN an echo of Messrs. Darwin and Huxley" (428). Moreover, as the critic Gillian Beer confirms, "George Eliot was often taken to task by contemporary reviewers for the persistent...

"Moving again among the shades of tall, unaxed trees": regional utopias, railroads, and metropolitan miscegenation in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.
June 22, 2006... READERS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S GO DOWN, MOSES HAVE OFTEN BEEN struck by Ike McCaslin's repudiation of his birthright and the extensive landholdings accompanying it. Understandably, many critical analyses of the work have focused on the ethical...

Faulkner's ecological disturbances.(William Faulkner)(Biography)
June 22, 2006... A disturbance is any relatively discrete event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure and changes resources, substrate availability, or the physical environment. --P. S. White and S. T. A. Pickett, "Natural...

Diagramming Faulkner and Welty.(William Faulkner and Eudora Welty; sentence diagramming)(Excerpt)(Brief article)
June 22, 2006... We present here two pages of Kitty Burns Florey's wonderful book on the nearly-lost art of sentence diagramming: they speak for themselves. We are grateful to the author and to her editor, Becky Kraemer, for granting us permission to reproduce...

Out of Eden: the emergence of Olympia Vernon and black woman love.
June 22, 2006... [W]hen I turned to cover Aunt Pip's body, I noticed a moving muscle beneath the covers, traveling up toward her middle part. My hand crawled on the bone of Aunt Pip's leg. She had lost weight rapidly. It was different to see what the cancer had...

The ghostly presence of Evangeline: Faulkner's exorcism and revision of the feminine ideal.(influence of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on novelist William Faulkner)
June 22, 2006... IN SEPTEMBER 1951, WILLIAM FAULKNER VISITED THE PLACE WHERE YEARS earlier Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Tales of a Wayside Inn. Although he was offered the room where the poet stayed, Faulkner declined, saying that it would "make him nervous...

Kate Chopin's "Cavanelle" and The American Jewess: an impressive synergy.
June 22, 2006... KATE CHOPIN'S "CAVANELLE" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN APRIL OF 1895, IN the inaugural issue of The American Jewess, self-described as "The Only Publication in the World Devoted to the Interests of Jewish Women." (1) Yet Chopin's tale (the sole...

Recovering Southern identity in Evelyn Scott's Migrations and Escapade.
June 22, 2006... TWO OF THE WORKS WRITTEN BY THE SOUTHERN MODERNIST EVELYN SCOTT in the 1920s, the memoir Escapade (1923) and the novel Migrations (1927), portray the experiences of Southerners traveling outside the US South. By the time she wrote these works,...

Trapped echoes: The Wave and the collapse of national community.
June 22, 2006... SPRAWLING ACROSS 600 PAGES OF EPISODES AND ANECDOTES FROM EVERY corner of the American Civil War, Evelyn Scott's 1929 novel The Wave borrows liberally from the realistic and sentimental literary traditions that developed in response to that...

Hell comes to Arcady: racial history and gothic memory in Evelyn Scott's Background in Tennessee.
June 22, 2006... BACKGROUND IN TENNESSEE, EVELYN SCOTT'S 1937 MEMOIR, SEEKS TO unpack the complicated baggage of the author's Southern childhood in Clarksville, Tennessee. While following the expatriate tack of so many American modernists, Evelyn Scott...

Erasing grace: a revised conversion experience in Evelyn Scott's The Gravestones Wept.
June 22, 2006... EVELYN SCOTT, AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN MODERNIST AND SOUTHERN writer, has been receiving increased and long overdue critical attention in the last decade. While most of this attention has been for her work as a novelist and a memoirist, Scott was...

Evelyn Scott's nonfiction prose: a supplemental bibliography.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2006... THE COLLECTION OF ESSAYS EVELYN SCOTT: RECOVERING A LOST MODERNIST (2001) included an annotated bibliography of Evelyn Scott's published nonfiction prose, compiled by Will Brantley and coveting forty-seven pieces written by Scott--primarily...

A symposium: the US South, the Caribbean, and Latin America.(Look A way!: The U. S. South in New World Studies)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Look A way!: The U. S. South in New World Studies. Ed. Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Duke UP, 2004. 521 pp. $99.95 cloth. $26.95 paper. EIKO OWADA Waseda University, Japan EXTENDING THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE MONOLITHIC FORMULATION...

After the new critics: reading Thomas Wolfe.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Lay Down Your Ear upon the Earth, and Listen: Thomas Wolfe's Greener Modernism, by Robert Taylor Ensign. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.x, 156 pp. $29.95; Thomas Wolfe's Civil War, edited by David Madden. Tuscaloosa:...

Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It, by Miller Williams. Louisiana State UP, 2006. 127 pp. $18.95 paper. IN MAKING A POEM, MILLER WILLIAMS CALLS POETRY A "CONVINCING illusion of conversation," one enhanced...

Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South, edited by John Lang. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 362 pp. $24.95. OF THE MANY FINE BOOKS DEALING WITH APPALACHIAN LITERATURE published in the...

Narrating Knowledge in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Narrating Knowledge in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction, by Donald E. Hardy. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 2003. 199 pp., $29.95. LIKE MANY ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS, MINE IS A FLEXIBLE CONTAINER WITH many distinct yet sometimes overlapping...