Although he spent the bulk of his life in Oxford,
Mississippi-far removed from the intellectual centers of modernism
and the writers who created it-William Faulkner (1897-1962) proved
to be one of the American novelists who most comprehensively
grasped modernism. In his fiction he tested its tenets in the most
startling and insightful ways.
What, then, did such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway, Eudora
Welty, and Walker Evans think of his work? How did his times affect
and accept what he wrote?
"Faulkner and His Contemporaries" explores the relationship
between the Nobel laureate, ensconced in his "postage stamp of
native soil," and the world of letters within which he created his
masterpieces.
In this anthology, essays focus on such topics as how Faulkner's
literary antecedents (in particular, Willa Cather and Joseph
Conrad) influenced his writing, his literary/aesthetic feud with
rival Ernest Hemingway, and the common themes he shares with fellow
southerners Welty and Evans.
Several essays examine the environment in which Faulkner worked.
Deborah Clarke concentrates on the rise of the automobile industry.
W. Kenneth Holditch shows how the city of New Orleans acted as a
major force in Faulkner's fiction, and Grace Elizabeth Hale
examines how the civil rights era of Faulkner's later career
compelled him to deal with his ideas about race and rebellion in
new ways.
Joseph R. Urgo is chair of the English department at the
University of Mississippi. His many books include "In the Age of
Distraction," from the University Press of Mississippi.
Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study
of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, and co-editor
of publications in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.
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