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James G. Watson,William Faulkner
In this first major study of epistolarity in Faulkner’s work, James G. Watson examines Faulkner’s personal correspondence as a unique second canon of writing, separate from his literary canon with…
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James Faulkner
Welcome to the whimsical world of "Stanley the Slug"! Meet Stanley, the not-so-athletic but incredibly clever slug who embarks on a thrilling nighttime adventure in search of marshmallows. Follow Stanley…
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Taking into consideration their personal, political, and artistic ways of responding to the histories and realities of their time and place, this volume offers comparative scholarship that forges new connections…
Charles James Faulkner
Title: Report of Hon. C.J. Faulkner of Virginia in behalf of the minority of the Select Committee: vindicating the conduct of the President and Secretary of War in the sale…
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
American Designs addresses three major literary critical issues: the hermeneutics of the novel genre; the intense importance of this genre for American literature; and the way James and Faulkner explore…
james donal faulkner
The book recounts adventures: some on a tropical Brazilian island and some in merry sessions with the Irish uilleann pipes in and around Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Women–Brazilian…
Patricia McKee
Looks at how racial identity is produced in novels by James, Faulkner and Morrison and makes the non-essentialist argument that race becomes visible to us through a process of image…
James Ferguson
James Ferguson’s comprehensive overview of William Faulkner’s short fiction is a systematic study of this body of work, which Faulkner produced over a period of forty years. Based on his…
A stimulating treatment of the intersection between history and literature in the Nobel Laureate’s work
The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century’s most incisive authors on US slavery…
Brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of William Faulkner’s relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic…
Brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the economic contexts of William Faulkner’s life and work, to follow the proverbial money toward new insights into the Nobel Laureate…
Family played an outsized role in both William Faulkner's life and writings, often in deeply problematic ways. The dozen essays featured in this collection approach Faulkner's many families - actual…
The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century's most incisive authors on US slavery…
F Vernon Aler, Charles James Faulkner
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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James Hinkle,Robert McCoy
A glossary that will lead readers through the complexities of this book of interrelated stories by William Faulkner
Originally published in 1986. William Faulkner’s major novels represent one of the earliest American explorations into the paradoxes inherent in both literary discourse and racial segregation in the American South…
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A fascinating survey of Faulkner’s publishing history with periodicals and publishing houses
James G. Watson
How Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography.
David H. Evans
In William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition, David H. Evans pairs the writings of America’s most intellectually challenging modern novelist, William Faulkner, and the ideas of America’s…
The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers
Places William Faulkner’s literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the United States and the Caribbean. The volume’s seventeen essays and poetry selections chart lines…
Addresses the place of William Faulkner in the creation, design, publishing, marketing, reception, and collecting of books, in the culture of twentieth-century magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals, in the…
From insights into the Chickasaw sources of Faulkner’s fictional ‘Yoknapatawpha’, to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of Faulkner’s fiction, the…
From insights into the Chickasaw sources and implications of Faulkner’s fictional place-name Yoknapatawpha , to discussions of the potential for indigenous land, family, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of…
Hugh Ruppersburg,Robert McCoy,James Hinkle
A glossary that will lead readers through the complexities of one of William Faulkner’s major works
Theresa M. Towner,James B. Carothers
Countless readers of Faulkner have first entered his world through one of the forty-two doors in Collected Stories. Reading Faulkner attempts to make the process of reading America’s major modern…
James Everett Kibler
Faulkner the Southerner is the first biography to place the author in the context of his Southern culture and the continuity of Southern letters.
W. Faulkner
A collection of Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, with an abundance of new material. This volume includes his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of The Old Man and the Sea…
H H Haight
Full Title: James Lick, Appellant. vs. William Faulkner, Et Al. Respondents Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300…
Simon Faulkner
Learn how to utilise rhythm and reflection in both therapeutic and educational settings with this practical guide. This book presents a model of practice with a proven track record for…
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James Hinton
The name of the eighteenth-century Baptist minister James Hinton (1761-1823) is not one that is well-known by any standard, even to those who specialize in the study of English Baptist…
James B Meriwether
From The Princeton University Library Chronicle, V21, No. 3, Spring, 1960.
Abd Alkareem Atteh
This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in representing and depicting place. With an ever-changing attitude towards place and what it means, modernist…
David L. Minter
Minter’s vision of the relationship between literary narratives and cultural events reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama in which the novels and the events, provocative fusions of the real…
This account of America in the 1890s to 1940s reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama out of which novels and the events emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression.
The subject of expertise is becoming recognised in a range of scholarly disciplines ranging from science and technology, psychology, computing and artificial intelligence through to management and organisational behaviour. Exploring…
Robert Humphrey
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
Armin Paul Frank,Rolf Lohse,Henry James,William Dean Howells,Toni Morrison
This collection of essays is part of a project that surveys American literatures in terms of the writers’ responses to international literature. Among English American novelists, 1860s to 1990s, James…
