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Where William Faulkner's fiction stands in relation to that of Ellison, Pynchon, Nabokov, and other postmodern greats. Papers from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held in 1999 at the University of Mississippi

This study treats in detail the novels Light in August, The Wild Palms, Sanctuary, Pylon, and Absalom, Absalom!, as well as several of Faulkner's short stories. In discussing each work, Duvall challenges the traditional view that Faulkner created active men who follow a code of honor and passive women who are close to nature. Instead, he charts the many instances of men who are nurturing and passive and women who are strong and sexually active...

Drawn from the pages of "Modern Fiction Studies"--with its distinguished tradition of publishing scholarship on William Faulkner--this landmark volume collects nineteen seminal essays that focus on Faulkner's most popular fiction, reflecting the enduring relevance of his canon.The essays are grouped thematically into four categories--Myth and Religion, Temporality, History, and Trauma, Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity, and Moder...

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

Narrating 9/11 challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the Bush Administration¿s policies on preemptive war, extraordinary rendition, torture abroad, and the suspension of privacy rights and civil liberties at home.Building on the work of Giorgio Agam...

This essential 2011 reference guide offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. There are chapters on the period's significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo.

An overview of the works and career of the postmodern American author of White Noise and Underworld.