Books by Donald M. Kartiganer
Faulkner and Ideology (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)
by Ann J Abadie, Donald M. Kartiganer
Thirteen original papers from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conferences held in 1992 at the University of Mississippi
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Faulkner and Gender
by Ann J Abadie, Donald M. Kartiganer
These thirteen original essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1994 at the University of Mississippi, examine William Faulkner's texts in terms of their surprising range of gender portrayals.
The collection explores such themes as the male homosocial urge ay the heart of warfare, the blurring of gender distinctions in Faulkner's ?epicene? figures, the function of cross-dressing as a form of defiance of traditional hierarchies. Several of the essays see in Faulkner a challenge to the ?culture? vs. ?nature? dichotomy itself, suggesting that sex may be a product of gender rather than its origin, that the line between the biological given and the social performance may be even more tenuous than we have assumed.
More than any other of the various contextualist approaches brought to bear on Faulkner's work, the focus on gender exemplifies the theory of the cultural construction of reality. Recent literary criticism, in large part owing to the emergence of feminism, has convincingly argued the difference between gender and sex, between the acculturated and the naturel. Among the results of the attention to gender in Faulkner studies is a fresh sense of fictional character as a site of multiple, sometimes clashing, personae, each gender role a signifier threatening to float free, speaking the reigning discourse, but always with a touch of conscious or unconscious parody.
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Faulkner and the Artist (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)
by Ann J Abadie, Donald M. Kartiganer
Whatever the various roles he played and whatever his occasional claims that he was not at all a “literary man,” William Faulkner was in fact the most devoted of artists. He was absolutely dedicated to the work, and, as this volume demonstrates, he was fascinated with the personality, the generative process, and the practice of the artist.
These fourteen original essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1993 at the University of Mississippi, explore a wide range of issues revolving around the meaning of art, artistry, and the artist in Faulkner’s life and fiction. Here some of Faulkner’s most fervent readers and critics assess the impact on him of the visual arts and architecture, the role of artist figures in such novels as The Sound and the Fury and The Wild Palms, as well as their guise as lawyers in Sanctuary, Go Down, Moses, and The Town, and the meaning of “telling” and “design” as exemplified both in the actions of fictional characters and in Faulkner’s narrative strategies.
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Faulkner and Psychology (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)
by Ann J Abadie, Donald M. Kartiganer
Characteristically, William Faulkner minimized his familiarity with the theories of psychology that were current during the years of his apprenticeship as a writer, especially those of Freud. Yet, Faulkner’s works prove to be a trove for psychological study. These original papers from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1991 at the University of Mississippi, vary widely in their approaches to recent psychological speculation about Faulkner’s texts. In recent years psychological analysis of literature has shifted largely from investigation of a writer’s life to a focus on the work itself. Whether applying the theories of Freud and Lacan, drawing upon theoretical work in women’s studies and men’s studies, or emphasizing the rigid determinacy of psychological pressure, the essays included in this collection show Faulkner’s works to be unquestionably rich in psychological materials.
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Faulkner in Cultural Context (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)
by Ann J Abadie, Donald M. Kartiganer
What Faulkner once re-ferred to as his "material, the South," possesses the most substantive kind of reality - war and peace, wealth and poverty, race and sexual identity. Yet this reality is ultimately cultural, for it must be understood in terms of a way of life.
The twelve essays in this volume, presented in 1995 at the University of Mississippi, trace some of the significant connections between Faulkner's fiction and its surrounding cultural life and show the ways in which the work of art and the cultural context combine to produce meaning.
At the University of Mississippi Donald M. Kartiganer is William Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies, and Ann J. Abadie, who has coedited all volumes in the Faulkner Conference series, is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
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