Jay Watson

Jay Watson is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of many publications, including William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity; Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner; and Fossil-Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South. He is also coeditor of multiple volumes in University Press of Mississippi’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.

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Faulkner and Print Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating survey of Faulkner’s publishing history with periodicals and publishing houses

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Faulkner and History

University Press of Mississippi

A stimulating treatment of the intersection between history and literature in the Nobel Laureate’s work

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Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas

University Press of Mississippi

The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers

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Faulkner's Geographies

University Press of Mississippi

Essays that study mobility, place, and spatial imagination in the Nobel laureate’s work

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Faulkner and Whiteness

Edited by Jay Watson
University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the Nobel Lauerate’s work and its interrogations of whiteness

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Conversations with Larry Brown

Edited by Jay Watson
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the author of Dirty Work, Father and Son, Joe, and Big Bad Love

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Faulkner and Money

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough assay of the Nobel Laureate through the lens of lucre

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Faulkner and the Native South

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the Nobel laureate’s engagement with Native Americans and the ways in which Native American writing illuminates Faulkner

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Fifty Years after Faulkner

University Press of Mississippi

Essays that reassess Faulkner’s life and career a half century after his death

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Faulkner and Slavery

University Press of Mississippi

A long-awaited assessment of the Nobel laureate’s work in relation to America’s cosmic sin

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Faulkner's Families

University Press of Mississippi

A new and fascinating volume that explores the theme of family in the works by the great Mississippi writer

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Faulkner, Welty, Wright

A Mississippi Confluence

University Press of Mississippi

An engaging, diverse collection that considers together a trio of Mississippi literary giants

  • Copyright year: 2024
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