Joseph R. Urgo
Joseph R. Urgo is chair of the English Department at the University of Mississippi. His books include Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!;Faulkner’s Apocrypha; Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture; and In the Age of Distraction, among others, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Faulkner's Inheritance
Examinations of the many influences on Faulkner’s fiction
Faulkner and Material Culture
Essays exploring the Nobel Laureate’s literary uses of the worldly material around him
Faulkner and His Contemporaries
A study of Faulkner’s place among his peers
Reading Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner’s masterpieces
Faulkner in America
A lively consideration of how to classify Faulkner’s place in America
Faulkner and the Ecology of the South
Essays that explore Faulkner’s relationship to land, people, and the environment