| Faulkner and the Artist Contributor(s): Kartiganer, Donald M. (Editor), Abadie, Ann J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0878058486 ISBN-13: 9780878058488 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: The meaning of art, artistry, and the figure of the artist in William Faulkner's life and fiction. Original essays from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 95-41964 |
| Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.07" W x 9.12" (1.29 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kartiganer, Donald M.: - Donald M. Kartiganer was the William Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi.Abadie, Ann J.: - Ann J. Abadie is former associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. |