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Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (12th : 1985 : University of Mississippi)
Imprint:Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c1986.
Descriptionxiv, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Papers presented at the 12th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the Oxford campus of University of Mississippi, 1985.
Note:William Faulkner: life and art / Joseph Blotner -- The mutual relevance of Faulkner studies and women's studies: an interdisciplinary inquiry / Ilse Dusoir Lind -- Faulkner's critics and women: the voice of the community / John N. Duvall -- Women in Faulkner's novels: author's attitude and artistic function / Sergei Chakovsky -- Meditations on the other: Faulkner's rendering of women / Philip M. Weinstein -- Mothers and daughters in endless procession: Faulkner's use of the Demeter/Persephone myth / Mimi R. Gladstein -- Desire and despair: Temple Drake's self-victimization / Robert R. Moore -- In praise of Helen / André Bleikasten -- Joe Christmas and "womanshenegro" / Doreen Fowler -- Faulkner and womankind: "no bloody moon" / Winifred L. Frazer -- Woman and the feminine in A Fable / Noel Polk -- Woman and the making of the new world: Faulkner's short stories / Alexandre Vashchenko -- Double murder: the women of Faulkner's "Elly" / Alice Hall Petry -- Faulkner's hen-house: woman as bounded text / Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz -- Faulkner and women writers / Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- Falkner and women / Toni Morrison.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
