William Faulkner
Faulkner and Material Culture
Photographs, lumber, airplanes, hand-hewn coffins—in every William Faulkner novel and short story worldly material abounds. The essays in Faulkner and Material Culture provide a fresh understanding of ...
Faulkner's Sexualities
William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality, where every normative notion of identity and relationship was being ...
Reading Faulkner
A glossary that will lead readers through the complexities of one of William Faulkner's most fascinating books. For some The Unvanquished has proven to be the starting point for reading Faulkner. Its narrative, ...
Reading Faulkner
No other novel by William Faulkner has experienced the kind of dramatic critical re-evaluation that “Sanctuary” has received. Published in 1931, it seemed to many readers and critics in the thirties ...
Faulkner and War
There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a veteran flyer, for he ...
Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition
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 ...
Faulkner and His Contemporaries
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 ...
Reading Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to ...
New Orleans Sketches
In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book ...
The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
In Michael Millgate's essay he writes that "To see the places where an author lived and walked, and typed; to see what he daily saw, smell what he smelled; experience the resources of his native climate: ...