Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Note on the Conference -- Faulkner and the Claims of the Natural World -- Oversexing the Natural World: Mosquitoes and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms] -- Unsurprised Flesh: Color, Race, and Identity...
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Note on the Conference -- Faulkner and the Claims of the Natural World -- Oversexing the Natural World: Mosquitoes and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms] -- Unsurprised Flesh: Color, Race, and Identity in Faulkner's Fiction -- Writing Blood: The Art of the Literal in Light in August -- Getting Around the Body: The Matter of Race and Gender in Faulkner's Light in August -- Thomas Sutpen's Marriage to the Dark Body of the Land -- Faulkner and the Unnatural -- Eula, Linda, and the Death of Nature -- Taking the Place of Nature: ''The Bear'' and the Incarnation of America -- Return of the Big Woods: Hunting and Habitat in Yoknapatawpha -- Learning from Faulkner: The Obituary of Fear -- Contributors -- Index.
Papers from the 23rd Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held July 28-Aug. 2, 1996, sponsored by the University of Mississippi in Oxford
Includes bibliographical references and index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""A Note on the Conference""; ""Faulkner and the Claims of the Natural World""; ""Oversexing the Natural World: Mosquitoes and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms]""; ""Unsurprised Flesh: Color, Race, and Identity in Faulkner�s Fiction""; ""Writing Blood: The Art of the Literal in Light in August""; ""Getting Around the Body: The Matter of Race and Gender in Faulkner�s Light in August""; ""Thomas Sutpen�s Marriage to the Dark Body of the Land""; ""Faulkner and the Unnatural""; ""Eula, Linda, and the Death of Nature""
""Taking the Place of Nature: ��The Bear�� and the Incarnation of America""""Return of the Big Woods: Hunting and Habitat in Yoknapatawpha""; ""Learning from Faulkner: The Obituary of Fear""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as "the only really authentic region in the United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists between man and his environment.". The essays collected in...
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In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as "the only really authentic region in the United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists between man and his environment.". The essays collected in Faulkner and the Ecology of the South explore Faulkner's environmental imagination, seeking what Ann Fisher-Wirth calls the "ecological counter-melody" of his texts. "Ecology" was not a term in common use outside the sciences in Faulkner's time. However, the word "environment" seems to have held deep meaning
Cover; Contents; Introduction; A Note on the Conference; "Old Man": Shackles, Chains, and Water Water Everywhere; The Land's Turn; Environed Blood: Ecology and Violence in The Sound and the Fury and Sanctuary; William Faulkner, Peter Matthiessen, and the Environmental Imagination; The Enemy Within: Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy; Is Faulkner Green? The Wilderness as Aporia; The Ecology of Uncle Ike: Teaching Go Down, Moses with Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood; Visceral Faulkner: Fiction and the Tug of the Organic World; McCrady's La-FAY-ette County; Collecting Faulkner; Contributors