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