{"product_id":"faulkner-in-america-joseph-r-urgo-9781578063765","title":"Faulkner in America","description":"With essays by Richard Godden, Catherine Gunther Kodat, Kathryn B. McKee, Peter Nicolaison, Charles A. Peek, Noel Polk, Hortense J. Spillers, Joseph R. Urgo, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Charles Reagan Wilson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e William Faulkner is Mississippi's most famous author and arguably one of the country's greatest writers. But what was his relationship with America? How did he view the nation, its traditions, its issues? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In ten essays from the 1998 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi, \u003ci\u003eFaulkner in America\u003c\/i\u003e looks closely at the exchange between William Faulkner the writer and his national affiliation. Collectively, the essays ask which American ideas, identities, and conflicts we should associate with Mississippi's Nobel Laureate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The collection explores questions regarding Faulkner's place in American literature, his standing and esteem in literary studies, and his relation to the United States. To address such issues, the writers seek a definition of the phrase \"Faulkner in America.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One difficulty scholars wrestle with is how to deal with Mississippi's place in the union. Surely, Faulkner mused: Is Mississippi in America? When he thought about America, he thought about being left alone, about maintaining his distance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Essays in this volume look at Faulkner's views on the \"greening of American history,\" on American figures such as Thomas Jefferson, on women in American letters, and on the American dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Authors find that the conceptually invigorating signification of the phrase \"Faulkner in America\" is, finally, provisional. Foremost in Faulkner's mind, in interviews as well as in the aesthetics of the apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County, is that whoever and whatever is in America arrived by battles won and lost, by emigration and enslavement, by choice and by compulsion. \u003ci\u003eFaulkner in America\u003c\/i\u003e occasions a rigorous examination of Faulkner's American century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph R. Urgo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578063760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578063765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.94w x 0.68d","brand":"Joseph R. Urgo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054807412991,"sku":"9781578063765","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_487e4185-305c-48f5-85d7-6f2ec670f22b.jpg?v=1685032111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/faulkner-in-america-joseph-r-urgo-9781578063765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}