| Contents |
Introduction / Donald M. Kartiganer -- Faulkner and the claims of the natural world / Lawrence Buell -- Oversexing the natural world: Mosquitoes and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms] / Thomas L. McHaney -- Unsurprised flesh: color, race, and identity in Faulkner's fiction / Theresa M. Towner -- Writing blood: the art of the literal in Light in August / Jay Watson -- Getting around the body: the matter of race and gender in Faulkner's Light in August / Mary Joanne Dondlinger -- Thomas Sutpen's marriage to the dark body of the land / Louise Westling. |
| Contents |
Faulkner and the unnatural / Myra Jehlen -- Eula, Linda, and the death of nature / Diane Roberts -- Taking the place of nature: "The Bear" and the incarnation of America / David H. Evans -- Return of the big woods: hunting and habitat in Yoknapatawpha / Wiley C. Prewitt -- Learning from Faulkner: the obituary of fear / William Kennedy. |
| General note | Papers from the 23rd Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held July 28-Aug. 2, 1996, sponsored by the University of Mississippi in Oxford. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98029568 |
| ISBN | 1578061202 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1578061210 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
