Eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The privations of postmodernism : Faulkner as exemplar (a meditation in ten parts) / Ihab Hassan -- Postmodern intimations : musing on invisibility : William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison / Philip Weinstein -- Postmodern Yoknapatawpha : William Faulkner as usable past / John N. Duvall -- Modernist design, postmodernist paranoia : reading Absalom, Absalom! with Gravity's rainbow / Molly Hite -- "I'm the man here" : Go down, Moses and masculine identity / Terrell L. Tebbetts -- Revising The sound and the fury : Absalom, Absalom! and Faulkner's postmodern turn / Doreen Fowler -- Intertextuality, transference, and postmodernism in Absalom, absalom! : the production and reception of Faulkner's fictional world / Martin Kreiswirth -- Postvomiting : Pylon and the Faulknerian spew / Joseph R. Urgo -- Make room for Elvis / Cheryl Lester -- Faulkner by the light of a pale fire : postmodern textual scholarship and Faulkner studies at the end of the twentieth century / Philip Cohen -- My Faulkner / John Barth.
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