Faulkner and the Natural WorldDonald M. Kartiganer, Ann J. Abadie Although he belonged to an American generation of writers deeply influenced by the high modernist revolt "against nature" and against the self-imposed limits of realism to a palpable world, William Faulkner reveals throughout his work an abiding sensitivity to the natural world. He writes of the big woods, of animals, and of the human body as a ground of being that art and culture can neither transcend nor completely control. Donald M. Kartiganer, Howry Chair of Faulkner Studies in the Department of English, and Ann J. Abadie, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, teach at the University of Mississippi. |
Contents
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Mosquitoes and If I Forget Thee Jerusalem The Wild Palms | xxi |
Color Race and Identity in Faulkners Fiction | 23 |
The Art of the Literal in Light in August | 44 |
The Matter of Race and Gender in Faulkners Light in August | 76 |
Thomas Sutpens Marriage to the Dark Body of the Land | 104 |
Faulkner and the Unnatural | 121 |
Eula Linda and the Death of Nature | 137 |
The Bear and the Incarnation of America | 157 |
Hunting and Habitat in Yoknapatawpha | 176 |
The Obituary of Fear | 200 |
Contributors | 209 |
Index | 213 |