"A COSMOS OF MY OWN;" FAULKNER AND YOKNAPATAWPHA 1980.

1980 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie (editors). Robert Hamblin; Panthea Reid Broughton; James Carothers; Louis Daniel Brodsky; Ellen Douglas; Charles Nilon; Francois Pitavy (contributors). [William Faulkner, 1897-1962.]

ISBN 10: 0878051430 / ISBN 13: 9780878051434

Published by Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1981., 1981

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xvi, 304 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15cm. Blue paper covers rubbed with minor wear and a few scuffs at edges and at spine ends. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A very good+ copy. With Introduction and Contributors. Features eleven essays: "'Saying No to Death'" by Robert W. Hamblin; "The Cubist Novel: Toward Defining the Genre" by Panthea Reid Broughton; "Faulkner's Cubist Novels" by Panthea Reid Broughton; "The Road to 'The Reivers'" by James B. Carothers; "The Collector as Sleuthsayer" by Louis Daniel Brodsky; "Faulkner's Women" by Ellen Douglas; "Cooper, Faulkner, and the American Venture" by Charles H. Nilon; "The Gothicism of 'Absalom, Absalom!:' Rosa Coldfield Revisited" by Francois L. Pitavy; "Blacks in Motion" by Charles H. Nilon; "The Myriad Heart: The Evolution of the Faulkner Hero" by James B. Carothers; "Faulkner in Time" by Ellen Douglas. ISBN 0878051430.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "A COSMOS OF MY OWN;" FAULKNER AND YOKNAPATAWPHA 1980.
• Publisher: Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1981.
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878051430
• ISBN 13: 9780878051434
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

Contributions by Robert Hamblin, Panthea Reid Broughton, James B. Carothers, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Ellen Douglas, Charles Nilon, and François Pitavy

Reflecting developments in Faulkner criticism, these papers delivered at the 1980 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference point the way to a new and relatively unexplored avenue of research―the study of relationships among Faulkner’s seemingly distinct novels.

No longer satisfied to look only at the individual work, critics are instead surveying the whole field of Faulkner’s fiction. Many of the lectures collected in this volume direct attention to the full scope and range of Faulkner’s fictional world, searching for, and finding, unity, harmony, and interrelationships. Some of the essays, like Ellen Douglas’s “Faulkner in Time” and James Carothers’s “The Road to The Reivers,” examine all of Faulkner’s novels, seeking to uncover an overall design and meaning. Others trace the appearances, in work after work, of one theme or figure. Among the subjects considered in this way are Faulkner’s women, his black characters, his heroes, his aristocrats, and his attitude toward death.

Taken together, these essays implicitly acknowledge the appropriateness of metaphor of a cosmos for Faulkner’s fictional creation. To be fully and accurately understood, each single part of Faulkner’s vast system of fictional meanings, like the separate worlds in a cosmos, must be assessed in the context of the whole.

About the Author

Doreen Fowler is professor of English at the University of Kansas. Ann J. Abadie was associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and is coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.