The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 2007

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 2007

Comprehending Faulkner's humor.
June 22, 2007... "Out with it," Varner said. "What do you think about it?" "You mean what I really think?" "What in damnation do you think I am talking about?" "I think the same as you do," Ratliff said quietly. "That there aint but two men I know can risk...

Being against snow.
June 22, 2007... For the moment and for the sake of argument, let's say that, a white Southerner and maybe even any white American, I too curse the day when the first Negro was brought against his will to this country and sold into slavery. Because that doesn't...

Lilith in Mississippi: reading mythic desire in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.
June 22, 2007... WILLIAM FAULKNER WARNED AGAINST WRITING "OF THE GLANDS" IN HIS Nobel Prize address and made grand claims about the supremacy of love as he played the role of celebrity writer. But perhaps the gentleman protested too much, considering that the...

Strangers in New York: Jan Lechon's encounters with William Faulkner.
June 22, 2007... Wiersz do Williama Faulknera spotkanego w hotelu Waldorf-Astoria Panowie jak zwyciezcy wchodza do hotelu Sluzba szepce codzienne grzecznogci pacierze, Lukiem brwi strzela pieknosc do nowego celu. I Pan tu miedzy nimi?...

"Other Souths": the expression of gay identity in Absalom, Abasalom!
June 22, 2007... IN THE INTRODUCTION TO INVENTING SOUTHERN LITERATURE, MICHAEL Kreyling argues that the orthodox narrative of Southern identity still prevalent today among students of American literature is, in actuality, the product of "a willed campaign on...

Narrative strategies on the color line: the unreliable narrator shreve and racial ambiguity in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
June 22, 2007... THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO PROJECT SOME LIGHT ONTO THE CRUCIAL function of the narrator Shreve in Absalom, Absalom!. This interpretation provides arguments for an approach that attempts to clarify narrative and moral problems the critic...

Hunting stories & stories told about hunting: what Isaac McCaslin thinks he learns in the Big Woods.
June 22, 2007... LIKE ISAAC MCCASLIN, I AM A WHITE SOUTHERNER WHO WAS DRAGGED TO the woods as a boy and taught to hunt. Unlike Ike, my hunger for education in the subject was hardly without end. I hunted quail in South Georgia rather than bear in Mississippi,...

Biographical fact or fiction?: William Faulkner, Estelle Oldham Franklin, and abortion.
June 22, 2007... ALL SERIOUS FAULKNER STUDENTS ARE FAMILIAR BY NOW WITH THE STORY of Faulkner as a wounded World War I flyer, back home in Oxford after the armistice, wearing his RAF uniform and wings, walking with a cane and a limp, and fabricating stories of...

Faulkner to Liveright, September 18, 1928.
June 22, 2007... EARLY IN SEPTEMBER, 2003, NOEL POLK ACQUIRED FROM THE HARCOURT Brace archive a copy of William Faulkner's contract for a novel titled "Sartoris" together with a previously unknown letter Faulkner wrote to Horace Liveright on September 18, 1928,...

A whole landscape in an old bean: varieties of recent Faulkner criticism.
June 22, 2007... William Faulkner's Legacy: "What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark," by Margaret Donovan Bauer. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 255pp. $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Faulkner the Storyteller, by Blair Labatt. Tuscaloosa: University...

Audacious performances.
June 22, 2007... Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty, by Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 184 pp. $40.00 cloth. IN ONE SENSE, BARBARA LADD'S...

The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature.
June 22, 2007... The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature, edited by Hugh Ruppersburg and John C. Inscoe. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xiii, 474 pp. $22.95 paper. H. L. MENCKEN'S LOW OPINION OF THE POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH IS...