Faulkner in cultural context
Subtitle: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1995
By: edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie.
Contributors: Kartiganer, Donald M, 1937-; Abadie, Ann J.; Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, (22nd : 1995 : University of Mississippi)
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Southern States -- In literature -- Congresses.
Description: From the 1995 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, twelve essays that reveal the author in his relationship with his world. What Faulkner once referred to as his "material, the South," possesses the most substantive kind of reality - war and peace, wealth and poverty, racial and sexual identity. Yet this reality is ultimately cultural, for it must be understood in terms of a way of life. The twelve essays in this volume trace some of the significant connections between Faulkner's fiction and his surrounding life and show the ways in which the work of art and the southern context combine to produce meaning.
Notes: Papers from the 22nd Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference sponsored by the University of Mississippi between July 30 and August 4, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.