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Subverting Mythologies: Refiguring Faulkner and Welty

Subverting Mythologies: Refiguring Faulkner and Welty Subverting Mythologies: Reg fi uring Faulkner and Welty by Joseph M. Flora Faulkner and Material Culture. Ed. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2007. xxii + 155 pp. 5 $0.00 cloth. Faulkner’s Inheritance. Ed. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2007. xvi + 178 pp. $ 50.00 cloth. Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition. By Noel Polk. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2008. xii + 207 pp. $50.00 cloth. Faulkner’s Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth. By Taylor Hagood. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008. x + 250 pp. $45.00 cloth. In today’s academy it is widely acknowledged that university presses have little interest in essay collections. The Festschrift has almost disappeared; most presses will not even consider them. Happily, how- ever, scholarship on the giants of our literature continues to be shared through collections. Organized around a theme, such collections can seem greater than the sum of their parts. Such is the case with Faulkner and Material Culture, a gathering of eight essays from the 2004 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The essays lead to a heightened appreciation for Faulkner’s rendering of the concrete and a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Subverting Mythologies: Refiguring Faulkner and Welty

Flora, Joseph M.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 42 (1) – Jan 27, 2010
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Subverting Mythologies: Reg fi uring Faulkner and Welty by Joseph M. Flora Faulkner and Material Culture. Ed. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2007. xxii + 155 pp. 5 $0.00 cloth. Faulkner’s Inheritance. Ed. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2007. xvi + 178 pp. $ 50.00 cloth. Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition. By Noel Polk. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2008. xii + 207 pp. $50.00 cloth. Faulkner’s Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth. By Taylor Hagood. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008. x + 250 pp. $45.00 cloth. In today’s academy it is widely acknowledged that university presses have little interest in essay collections. The Festschrift has almost disappeared; most presses will not even consider them. Happily, how- ever, scholarship on the giants of our literature continues to be shared through collections. Organized around a theme, such collections can seem greater than the sum of their parts. Such is the case with Faulkner and Material Culture, a gathering of eight essays from the 2004 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The essays lead to a heightened appreciation for Faulkner’s rendering of the concrete and a

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