Faulkner and postmodernism
Subtitle: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1999
By: edited by John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie.
Contributors: Duvall, John N. 1956-; Abadie, Ann J.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States -- Congresses; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Mississippi -- Congresses; Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) -- Congresses; Mississippi -- In literature -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "In eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner and his fiction in light of postmodern literature, culture, and theory. The volume explores the variety of ways Faulkner's art can be used to measure similarities and differences between modernism and postmodernism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi.
Table of contents: title: The privations of postmodernism : Faulkner as exemplar (a meditation in ten parts) / Ihab Hassan; title: Postmodern intimations : musing on invisibility : William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison / Philip Weinstein; title: Postmodern Yoknapatawpha : William Faulkner as usable past / John N. Duvall; title: Modernist design, postmodernist paranoia : reading Absalom, Absalom! with Gravity's rainbow / Molly Hite; title: "I'm the man here" : Go down, Moses and masculine identity / Terrell L. Tebbetts; title: Revising The sound and the fury : Absalom, Absalom! and Faulkner's postmodern turn / Doreen Fowler; title: Intertextuality, transference, and postmodernism in Absalom, absalom! : the production and reception of Faulkner's fictional world / Martin Kreiswirth; title: Postvomiting : Pylon and the Faulknerian spew / Joseph R. Urgo; title: Make room for Elvis / Cheryl Lester; title: Faulkner by the light of a pale fire : postmodern textual scholarship and Faulkner studies at the end of the twentieth century / Philip Cohen; title: My Faulkner / John Barth.