Faulkner and the Artist

by Kartiganer, Donald M.; Abadie, Ann J.

• ISBN13: 9780878058488
• ISBN10: 0878058486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

The meaning of art, artistry, & the figure of the artist in William Faulkner's life & fiction. Original essays from the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in 1993.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Note on the Conference
A Historian Looks at Faulkner the Artist	p. 3
William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren as Literary Artists	p. 22
Faulkner, Home, and the Ocean	p. 41
Cracked Urns: Faulkner, Gender, and Art in the South	p. 51
The Scene of Writing and the Shape of Language for Faulkner When "Matisse and Picasso Yet Painted"	p. 82
William Faulkner and the Meaning of Architecture: The Greek Revival of Yoknapatawpha	p. 110
Recovering the Teller in the Tale: An Unfinished Project	p. 141
"Paradoxical and Outrageous Discrepancy": Transgression, Auto-Intertextuality, and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha	p. 161
Pylon, Joyce, and Faulkner's Imagination	p. 181
The Signifying Eye: Faulkner's Artists and the Engendering of Art	p. 208
The Complex Art of Justice: Lawyers and Lawmakers as Faulkner's Dubious Artist-Figures	p. 250
"Longer than Anything": Faulkner's "Grand Design" in Absalom, Absalom!	p. 269
The Ephemeral Instant: William Faulkner and the Photographic Image	p. 294
Uncle High Lonesome	p. 318
Whispers in the High Lonesome	p. 333
Contributors	p. 339
Index	p. 343
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