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.

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Faulkner's Inheritance

University Press of Mississippi

Examinations of the many influences on Faulkner’s fiction

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Faulkner and Material Culture

University Press of Mississippi

Essays exploring the Nobel Laureate’s literary uses of the worldly material around him

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Faulkner and His Contemporaries

University Press of Mississippi

A study of Faulkner’s place among his peers

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Reading Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

University Press of Mississippi

For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner’s masterpieces

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Faulkner in America

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Faulkner and the Ecology of the South

University Press of Mississippi

Essays that explore Faulkner’s relationship to land, people, and the environment

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