Faulkner\u27s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns

Faulkner\u27s Subject offers a reading of William Faulkner for our time, and does so by rethinking his masterpieces through the lenses of current critical theory. The book attends equally to the power of his work and to the current theoretical issues that would call that power into question. Drawing on poststructuralist, ideological, and gender theory, Weinstein examines the harrowing process of becoming oneself at the heart of these novels. This self is always male, and it achieves focus only through strategically mystifying or marginalizing women and blacks. The cosmos he called his own--the textual world he produced, of which he would be sole owner and proprietor--merges as a cosmos no one owns, a verbal territory also generated (and biased) by the larger culture\u27s discourses of gender and race. Like personal identity itself, it is a cosmos no one owns

Discussions for Small Groups

Three of four topics will be repeated. Faulkner in Oxford / M. C. Falkner, Howard Duvall and John Ramey. Ole Miss Union, Room 404Soviet Perceptions of William Faulkner / Nicolai Anastasiev, Sergei Chakovsky, Maya Korneva, and Tatiana Morozova. Union Ballroom (**Topic will not repeat**)The Sources of Faulkner\u27s Craft / Beth Dyer Biron, Cleanth Brooks, Robert W. Hamblin, Richard C. Moreland, and Judith L. SensibarFaulkner\u27s Practice of Craft / Donald M. Kartiganer, Christopher A. LaLonde, John T. Matthews, William E. H. Meyer, Jr., and Philip M. Weinstei

Becoming Faulkner: The Art And Life Of William Faulkner

William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a destructive bout with alcoholism. In this imaginative biography, Philip Weinstein--a leading authority on the great novelist--targets Faulkner\u27s embattled sense of self as central to both his life and his work. Weinstein shows how Faulkner\u27s troubled interactions with time, place, and history--with antebellum practices and racial division--take on their fullest meanings in his fiction. Exploring the resonance of his own unpreparedness, Faulkner invented a singular language that captured human consciousness under stress as never before. Becoming Faulkner joins Faulkner\u27s life and art in a bold new way, giving readers a full vantage from which to better understand this twentieth-century literary genius

Discussions for Small Groups

Faulkner in Oxford / M. C. Falkner, moderator, Howard Duvall, and John Ramey. Ole Miss Union BallroomThe Stories and the Faulkner Canon / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., Susan V. Donaldson, David Minter, Hans H. Skei, and Philip M. Weinstein. Ole Miss Union Room 404 A&BFaulkner\u27s Stories and the World Outside / James B. Carothers, John T. Irwin, Tao Jie, and John T. Matthews. Ole Miss Union Room 405 A&

Discussions for Small Groups

Faulkner in Oxford / M. C. Falkner, moderator, Howard Duvall, and John Ramey. Ole Miss Union BallroomThe Stories and the Faulkner Canon / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., Susan V. Donaldson, David Minter, Hans H. Skei, and Philip M. Weinstein. Ole Miss Union Room 404 A&BFaulkner\u27s Stories and the World Outside / James B. Carothers, John T. Irwin, Tao Jie, and John T. Matthews. Ole Miss Union Room 405 A&

Discussions for Small Groups

Three of four topics will be repeated. Faulkner in Oxford / M. C. Falkner, Howard Duvall and John Ramey. Ole Miss Union, Room 404The Sources of Faulkner\u27s Craft / Beth Dyer Biron, Cleanth Brooks, Robert W. Hamblin, Richard C. Moreland, and Judith L. SensibarFaulkner\u27s Practice of Craft / Donald M. Kartiganer, Christopher A. LaLonde, John T. Matthews, William E. H. Meyer, Jr., and Philip M. WeinsteinMississippi Scenes / Jane Rule Burdine and Walter Liniger. Ole Miss Union, Multipurpose Room (**Topic will not repeat**

Lucy Faulkner and the 'ghastly grin': Reworking the title page illustration to Goblin Market

An article that recovers the work of the craftswoman Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith. It demonstrates her role in the re-cutting of the title page illustration to Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’ designed by D. G. Rossetti in 1862-5