The essays in this volume are indicative of the scope of
international scholarship concerning the works of William Faulkner.
They reflect particularly the distinctive and somewhat varying
views that American and European scholars have of the Nobel Prize
author.
The nine papers included, a representative sampling of those
delivered at the First International Colloquium on William
Faulkner, articulate the relationship between Faulkner and
idealism. All appear in English, either having been presented in
English or translated so that they will be more accessible to
American readers.
The conference was convened in March 1980 at the University of
Paris, and the scholars from both sides of the Atlantic came to
realize not only that there were respective attitudes toward
Faulkner's fiction but also that there was no single concept of
idealism by which they might gauge Faulkner. Thus, as Gresset and
Samway state in their introduction, "The colloquium was no
demonstration of a theorem already proved, but rather a chance to
pose a theoretical problem and then for variables that might be
part of the understanding of the nature of the problem."
For instance, the paper presented by Joseph Blotner, the keynote
speaker, finds that Faulkner's idealism is "based on a conception
of things as they are or as one would wish them to be." Andre
Bleikasten offers another view of idealism, one stressing ideology.
"Writing," he says, "can neither subvert nor dismiss ideology."
Thus the nine essays bear witness to a spectrum of views and
approaches one can take in using only recent critical theory and a
close reading of Faulkner's texts.
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