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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from September 2004
A quarterly referred journal of culture of the southern United States. Articles include historical analysis, literary criticism, and original research. Published by Mississippi State University.
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The Mississippi Quarterly archives from September 2004
Michel Gresset 1936-2005.(Obituary)(Reprint)
September 22, 2004... Michel Gresset will remain among us as one of the best Faulknerians of his generation. Of the small group of scholars Joseph Blotner once called "the French school of Faulkner," he was the youngest, the first to defend his dissertation, the...
First is Jefferson: Faulkner shapes his domain.(1)
September 22, 2004... MY PURPOSE IN THIS ESSAY IS TO EXPLORE THE LANGUAGE--and the literary attention--Faulkner devoted, or did not devote, to the shaping of what has become one of the most universally known literary landscapes of the twentieth century,...
Topographical topics: Faulknerian space.
September 22, 2004... ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT CONCEPTS TO GRASP, perhaps we never really get it, is the space-time continuum itself, starting with the least accessible calculus of location--the solar system, with its "nine planets, 10,000 known asteroids, and...
Labor, economy, and desire: rethinking American nationhood through Yoknapatawpha.
September 22, 2004... It is because this New World is constituted for us as place, a narrative of displacement, that it gives rise so profoundly to a certain imaginary plenitude, recreating the endless desire to return to "lost origins," to be one again with the...
Posting Yoknapatawpha.
September 22, 2004... The author has never, in any sense, photographed Japan. Rather, he has done the opposite: Japan has starred him with any number of "flashes"; or, better still, Japan has afforded him a situation of writing. This situation is the very one in...
The uncanny and the opaque in Yoknapatawpha and beyond (1).
September 22, 2004... the hate and the fury and the unsleeping and the unforgetting
---Absalom, Absalom!
FOR C. JENTSCH, WHOM FREUD CREDITS as anticipating his own research into the subject, "the uncanny" pertains to "doubts whether an apparently animate...
The Yoknapatawpha project: the map of a deeper existence.
September 22, 2004... ... all that gigantic long complex chronicle, at the end reduced to a simple regimental attack against a simple elevation of earth too small to show on a map, known only to its own neighborhood.
--William Faulkner, A Fable (881)
HOW...
Essays, Speeches and Public Letters.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Essays, Speeches and Public Letters, by William Faulkner. Edited by James B. Meriwether. New York: Modern Library, 2004. xxiv, 353 pp. $14.95.
IT IS EXCELLENT TO HAVE FAULKNER'S Essays, Speeches and Public Letters back in print, still in...
On William Faulkner.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... On William Faulkner, by Eudora Welty. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. 96 pp. $25.00.
LEAFING THROUGH THIS HANDSOME LITTLE BOOK is much like opening an unsuspected drawerful of trifles and treasures in the house of a beloved...
Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction, by Farrell O'Gorman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 259 pp. $44.95.
IT IS REMARKABLE TO ENCOUNTER SUCH BREADTH of...
Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South, by Tara McPherson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xii, 318 pp. $64.95 cloth. $21.95 paper.
Reconstructing Dixie offers readers any number of firsts. It is the...
The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History, by Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95.
CHARLOTTE BECK'S "CRITICAL HISTORY" of the Fugitives and the personal, professional and aesthetic...
South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature, by Trudier Harris-Lopez. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. xv, 230 pp. $24.95.
THE AMERICAN SOUTH HAS FIGURED more centrally for African-American literature in some eras...
When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature, edited by Jonathan Brennan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 307 pp. $39.95.
CRITICS INTERESTED IN ESTABLISHING the authenticity of a cultural identity often...
Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865, by Deborah C. De Rosa. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. xiii, 200 pp. $57.50 cloth. $19.95 paper.
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WORKS BY Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lydia...
Mark Twain and Company: Six Literary Relations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mark Twain and Company: Six Literary Relations, by Leland Krauth. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. 307 pp. $34.95; Mark Twain, by Larzer Ziff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 126 pp. $17.95.
LELAND KRAUTH REMINDS US, in...