As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel
Polk has delivered lectures, written journal articles and essays,
and discussed the rich legacy of the South's literary heritage
around the world for over three decades. His work on William
Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, and other writers is incisive
and groundbreaking.
His essays in "Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary
Tradition" maintain an abiding interest in Polk's major area of
literary study: the relationship between the smaller units of
construction in a literary work and the work's larger themes. The
analysis of this interplay between commas and dashes, curious
occlusions, passages, and characters who have often gone unnoticed
in the critical discourse--the bricks and mortar, as it were--and a
work's grand design is a crucial aspect of Polk's scholarship.
"Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition"
collects Polk's essays from the late-1970s to 2005. Featuring an
introduction that places Faulkner and Welty at the center of the
South's literary heritage, the volume asks useful, probing
questions about southern literature and provides insightful
analysis.
Noel Polk is professor of English at Mississippi State
University and editor of the "Mississippi Quarterly." From 1981 to
2006, he edited the Library of America's complete edition of
William Faulkner's novels. He is the author of "Outside the
Southern Myth"; "Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in
Faulkner"; and "Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work."
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