A lively consideration of how to classify Faulkner’s place in America

Scholarly probings that find the heart of nature in the Nobel Prize author’s works

The meaning of art, artistry, and the figure of the artist in William Faulkner's life and fiction. Original essays from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in 1993

Works by the Nobel Prize author as seen in psychological perspectives

Papers presented in 1990 at the seventeenth annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi. A volume extolling the Nobel Laureate’s short story masterpieces with homage and critical appreciation

These essays seek out the influence of popular culture upon the Nobel Prize author and note forays into the pop culture world.

The contributors, authorities on Faulkner’s narrative, offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner’s fiction-writing process

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