Although he belonged to an American generation of writers deeply
influenced by the high modernist revolt "against nature" and
against the self-imposed limits of realism to a palpable world,
William Faulkner reveals throughout his work an abiding sensitivity
to the natural world. He writes of the big woods, of animals, and
of the human body as a ground of being that art and culture can
neither transcend nor completely control.
The eleven essays that make up this volume, including a paper
written by the acclaimed novelist William Kennedy, explore the
place of "the unbuilt world" in Faulkner's fiction. They give
particular attention to the social, mythic, and economic
significance of nature, to the complexity of racial identity, and
to the inevitable clash of gender and sexuality.
These essays were presented in 1996 as papers at the Faulkner and
Yoknapatawpha Conference, held annually at the University of
Mississippi. Included are the following:
Lawrence Buell's "Faulkner and the Claims of the Natural World";
Thomas L. McHaney's "Oversexing the Natural World"; Theresa M.
Towner's "Color, Race, and Identity in Faulkner's Fiction"; Jay
Watson's "The Art of the Literal in "Light in August""; Mary Joanne
Dondlinger's "The Matter of Race and Gender in Faulkner's "Light in
August""; Louise Westling's "Sutpen's Marriage to the Dark Body of
the Land"; Myra Jehlen's "Faulkner and the Unnatural"; Diane
Roberts's "Eula, Linda, and the Death of Nature"; David H. Evans's
"'The Bear' and the Incarnation of America"; Wiley C. Prewitt,
Jr.'s "Hunting and Habitat in Yoknapatawpha"; and William Kennedy's
"Learning from Faulkner: The Obituary of Fear."
Donald M. Kartiganer, Howry Chair of Faulkner Studies in the
Department of English, and Ann J. Abadie, Associate Director of the
Center for the Study of Southern Culture, teach at the University
of Mississippi.
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