Faulkner’s Modernisms (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496864573 ISBN 13: 9781496864574

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 2026

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Contributions by Benjamin S. Child, Leigh Anne Duck, John N. Duvall, Amy A. Foley, Susan Stanford Friedman, Michael Gleason, Jolene Hubbs, Anne MacMaster, Sean McCann, Maggie E. Morris Davis, Julian Murphet, Ben Robbins, Benoît Tadié, Jay Watson, and Michael Zeitlin

Few would dispute today that William Faulkner belongs among the front ranks of literary modernists, though he was not typically viewed in those terms when publishing his major works. But what sort of modernist—or modernists—was he? This collection examines the who, what, where, when, and how of Faulkner’s modernism: its characters and cohort, its key subjects and themes, its locations and periodization, and its defining aesthetic strategies.

The essays place Faulkner in dialogue with global modernists such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Richard Wright. Contributors explore his fascination with modern objects and architecture; his experiments in aviation and adaptation to avant-garde theater; the impact of modernity on childhood, family, and nation; his critique of eugenics, Fordism, and Taylorism; his phenomenology of race; and his movement from “high” to “late” modernism. They also question the very utility of the term “modernism” when applied to Faulkner’s singular art. Faulkner’s Modernisms offers a bracing reappraisal of one of the twentieth century’s most challenging and idiosyncratic writers.

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Jay Watson is Howry Emeritus Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of many publications, including William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity; Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner; and Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South. He is also coeditor of multiple volumes in University Press of Mississippi’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.

James G. Thomas, Jr., is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and The Mississippi Encyclopedia; coeditor (with Jay Watson) of multiple volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series; and editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah. His work has appeared in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, Southern Cultures, Southern Quarterly, and elsewhere.

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• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1496864573
• ISBN 13: 9781496864574
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
• Herausgeber: Watson Jay, Thomas Jr. James G.
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