age ~60
from Saint Albans, WV
William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career, racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN #
1617030201
EAN Code
9781617030208
ISBN #
9
Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.In their introduction, Deborah Bark...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN #
0820337102
EAN Code
9780820337104
ISBN #
8
At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist Édouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that "Faulkner's oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans," a goal that "will be achieved by a radically 'other' reading." In the spirit of Glissant's pred...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN #
1496806344
EAN Code
9781496806345
ISBN #
7
The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined communities but imaginative geographies of remarkable co...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
208
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN #
1496802276
EAN Code
9781496802279
ISBN #
5
These essays examine issues across the wide arc of Faulkner's extraordinary career, from his aesthetic apprenticeship in the visual arts, to late-career engagements with the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and beyond, to the place of death in his artistic vision and the long, varied afterlives ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
336
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN #
1496803965
EAN Code
9781496803962
ISBN #
4
Forensic Fictions is the first book-length critical study of William Faulkner's fictional depictions of the legal vocation and the practice of law. Examining Faulkner's lawyer characters in light of the southern storytelling tradition, Jay Watson argues that the forensic competence of the Faulkneria...
Author
Jay Watson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN #
0820333654
EAN Code
9780820333656
ISBN #
3
Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. Sout...
Author
Jay Watson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
472
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN #
0820343382
EAN Code
9780820343389
ISBN #
1
With graduation fast approaching, Jay Watson has a lot on his mind, like how to keep his girlfriend satisfied, pass his internship, spend his trust fund, dodge a gypsy curse, and solve the mystery of a ghostly '57 Chevy. In other words, it's just another day for Jay.
Author
George R. Appelt Jr.
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
127
Publisher
Kismet & Company Publishing
ISBN #
10