Faulkner and the Natural World.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (261 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Note on the Conference -- Faulkner and the Claims of the Natural World -- Oversexing the Natural World: Mosquitoes and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms] -- Unsurprised Flesh: Color, Race, and Identity in Faulkner's Fiction -- Writing Blood: The Art of the Literal in Light in August -- Getting Around the Body: The Matter of Race and Gender in Faulkner's Light in August -- Thomas Sutpen's Marriage to the Dark Body of the Land -- Faulkner and the Unnatural -- Eula, Linda, and the Death of Nature -- Taking the Place of Nature: ''The Bear'' and the Incarnation of America -- Return of the Big Woods: Hunting and Habitat in Yoknapatawpha -- Learning from Faulkner: The Obituary of Fear -- Contributors -- Index.
9781604730258
Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Congresses. Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) -- Congresses. Human ecology in literature -- Congresses. Nature in literature -- Congresses.