Faulkner and Women

by Doreen Fowler (Editor), Ann J. Abadie (Editor)

Overview

In these stimulating papers from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in 1985, feminism and Faulkner studies collide, with beneficial results for each.

The disruptive and disturbing characterization of women in Faulkner’s fictional world and the influence of actual women in the novelist’s life are given attentive study in these papers. The contributors to this collection consider questions debated for many decades in Faulkner studies and those recently raised to prominence under the illuminating ray of feminist criticism.

“There is throughout Faulkner something disturbing,” Noel Polk observes, “about the comprehensiveness with which women in his work are associated with blood and excrement and filth and death.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878053124
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	12/01/1986
Series:	Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Doreen Fowler (Editor)
Doreen Fowler is professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is coeditor of many volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Ann J. Abadie (Editor)
Ann J. Abadie (1939-2024) was associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi as well as coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and other books published by University Press of Mississippi.