Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1997

by Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (24th : 1997 : University of Mississippi); Abadie, Ann J.

• ISBN13: 9781578062881
• ISBN10: 1578062888
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

A comprehensive account of the man and his work, including discussions of his life, the shape of his career, and his place in American literature. From the 1997 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in honor of the 100th anniversary of Faulkneras birth

Table of Contents

Evans Harrington	xi
In Place of an Introduction: Reading Faulkner	xiii
Donald M. Kartiganer
A Note on the Conference	xxvii
A Note on the Faulkner Centennial	xxix
Some Brief Recollections of Then---for Now	1	(25)
Joseph Blotner
Who Was William Faulkner?
Growing Up in Faulkner's Shadow	6	(6)
W. Kenneth Holditch
Faulkner, the Role-Player	12	(6)
Lothar Honnighausen
Was Not Was not Who Since Philoprogenitive	18	(8)
Noel Polk
Defining Moment: The Portable Faulkner Revisited	26	(44)
Michael Millgate
Why Faulkner?
``A Sight-Draft Dated Yesterday'': Faulkner's Uninsured Immortality	45	(8)
Philip M. Weinstein
Faulkner's Playful Bestiary: Seeing Gender Through Ovidian Eyes	53	(7)
Gail Mortimer
Faulkner's Continuing Education: From Self-Reflection to Embarrassment	60	(10)
Richard C. Moreland
Whose America? Faulkner, Modernism, and national Identity	70	(50)
John T. Matthews
The Career of William Faulkner
``Faulkner before Faulkner'': The Early Career As a Construction in Retrospect	93	(7)
Hans H. Skei
Absalom, Absalom! and the Challenges of Career Design	100	(9)
Judith Bryant Wittenberg
Faulkner's Career: Concept and Practice	109	(11)
Karl F. Zender
Faulkner's Grim Sires	120	(45)
Carolyn Porter
Faulkner and America
Reading the Absences: Race and Narration in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!	132	(8)
Doreen Fowler
The Strange, Double-Edged Gift of Faulkner's Fiction	140	(14)
David Minter
Not the Having but the Wanting: Faulkner's Lost Loves	154	(11)
John T. Irwin
Race Cards: Trumping and Troping in Constructing Whiteness	165	(39)
Thadious M. Davis
Untapped Faulkner
What Faulkner Read at the P.O	180	(8)
Thomas L. McHaney
Faulkner and Love: The Question of Collaboration	188	(7)
Judith L. Sensibar
Faulkner's Other Others	195	(9)
Arthur F. Kinney
Faulkner in the Singular	204	(34)
Andre Bleikasten
Response
Whose Faulkner Is It Anyway?	219	(7)
Susan V. Donaldson
Whose Faulkner?	226	(5)
Minrose C. Gwin
A Response in Forbidden Words	231	(7)
Warwick Wadlington
Me and Old Uncle Billy and the American Mythosphere	238	(51)
Albert Murray
Coda
William Faulkner Centennial Celebration Program, the University of Mississippi	250	(35)
Welcome	253	(2)
Robert C. Khayat
A Eulogy for Faulkner	255	(6)
Duncan m. Gray Jr.
``He Was Writing''	261	(3)
Donald M. Kartiganer
For Literature, for Faulkner	264	(3)
Richard Howorth
A Tribute to William Faulkner	267	(5)
Larry Brown
``Like a Big Soft Fading Wheel'': The Triumph of Faulkner's Art	272	(13)
Robert W. Hamblin
Faulkner Centennial Celebrations	285	(4)
Contributors	289	(6)
Index	295