Faulkner and Gender Contributor(s): Kartiganer, Donald M. (Editor), Abadie, Ann J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1617037036 ISBN-13: 9781617037030 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
Dewey: 813.52 |
LCCN: 96019048 |
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 326 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kartiganer, Donald M.: - Donald M. Kartiganer is the William Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of MississippiAbadie, Ann J.: - Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. She has coedited many volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series. |