Recently added articles from The Mississippi Quarterly:
James B. Meriwether: 1928-2007.(In memoriam)
Jun 22, 2006; McHaney, Thomas L. ... JAMES B. MERIWETHER, A LONG-TIME MEMBER OF THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY editorial board and the founder of MissQ' s annual summer Faulkner issue, died Sunday, March 18, 2007, at his home in Columbia, South Carolina, following long-term complications from cardiac surgery. Dr. Meriwether had ...
Combatting anti-Americanism during the Cold War: Faulkner, the State Department, and Latin America (1).(American novelist William Faulkner's visits to Latin America)
Jun 22, 2006; Cohn, Deborah ... IN 1950, WHEN FAULKNER WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE, HE INITIALLY declined to travel to Stockholm to pick up the award. The US ambassador to Sweden sent an urgent cable to Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressing his concern at the situation, for Faulkner's refusal to travel had provoked ...
Mechanization, materialism, and modernism in Faulkner's Flags in the Dust.
Jun 22, 2006; Davis, David A. ... AFTER WORLD WAR I, THE FACTORIES THAT HAD PRODUCED TANKS AND machine guns for the trenches of Europe began producing tractors and cultivators for the farms of the United States. These advances in mechanical technology between World War I and World War II led to a protracted revolution in ...
Snaffles and derbies: horseracing and southern folk culture in William Faulkner's The Reivers.
Jun 22, 2006; Fury, Frank P. ... GIVEN WILLIAM FAULKNER'S ENDURING FASCINATION WITH HORSES AND his enjoyment of riding, (1) it is surprising that critics have not remarked upon the significance of horses in The Reivers, his final novel. This is especially curious considering that the textual history of The Reivers, which ...
Evolutionary ideas in Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun.
Jun 22, 2006; Wainwright, Michael ... "MIDDLEMARCH," IN HENRY JAMES'S ESTIMATION FROM 1873, "IS TOO OFTEN an echo of Messrs. Darwin and Huxley" (428). Moreover, as the critic Gillian Beer confirms, "George Eliot was often taken to task by contemporary reviewers for the persistent scientific allusions in her work." Many ...
"Moving again among the shades of tall, unaxed trees": regional utopias, railroads, and metropolitan miscegenation in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.
Jun 22, 2006; Decker, Mark T. ... READERS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S GO DOWN, MOSES HAVE OFTEN BEEN struck by Ike McCaslin's repudiation of his birthright and the extensive landholdings accompanying it. Understandably, many critical analyses of the work have focused on the ethical implications of Ike's behavior. Some ...
Faulkner's ecological disturbances.(William Faulkner)(Biography)
Jun 22, 2006; Sivils, Matthew Wynn ... A disturbance is any relatively discrete event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure and changes resources, substrate availability, or the physical environment. --P. S. White and S. T. A. Pickett, "Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics: An ...
Diagramming Faulkner and Welty.(William Faulkner and Eudora Welty; sentence diagramming)(Excerpt)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2006; Florey, Kitty Burns ... We present here two pages of Kitty Burns Florey's wonderful book on the nearly-lost art of sentence diagramming: they speak for themselves. We are grateful to the author and to her editor, Becky Kraemer, for granting us permission to reproduce these pages here. [ILLUSTRATION ...
Out of Eden: the emergence of Olympia Vernon and black woman love.
Jun 22, 2006; Dagbovie, Sika Alaine ... [W]hen I turned to cover Aunt Pip's body, I noticed a moving muscle beneath the covers, traveling up toward her middle part. My hand crawled on the bone of Aunt Pip's leg. She had lost weight rapidly. It was different to see what the cancer had done, but to touch it. The face was already a ...
The ghostly presence of Evangeline: Faulkner's exorcism and revision of the feminine ideal.(influence of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on novelist William Faulkner)
Jun 22, 2006; Joiner, Jennie J. ... IN SEPTEMBER 1951, WILLIAM FAULKNER VISITED THE PLACE WHERE YEARS earlier Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Tales of a Wayside Inn. Although he was offered the room where the poet stayed, Faulkner declined, saying that it would "make him nervous to sleep in Longfellow's bed" (Blotner 545) ....
Kate Chopin's "Cavanelle" and The American Jewess: an impressive synergy.
Jun 22, 2006; Tritt, Michael ... KATE CHOPIN'S "CAVANELLE" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN APRIL OF 1895, IN the inaugural issue of The American Jewess, self-described as "The Only Publication in the World Devoted to the Interests of Jewish Women." (1) Yet Chopin's tale (the sole contribution by a non-Jewish author) has nothing to ...
Recovering Southern identity in Evelyn Scott's Migrations and Escapade.
Jun 22, 2006; Jones, Paul Christian ... TWO OF THE WORKS WRITTEN BY THE SOUTHERN MODERNIST EVELYN SCOTT in the 1920s, the memoir Escapade (1923) and the novel Migrations (1927), portray the experiences of Southerners traveling outside the US South. By the time she wrote these works, Scott herself had long departed the South in ...
Trapped echoes: The Wave and the collapse of national community.
Jun 22, 2006; Newhouse, Wade ... SPRAWLING ACROSS 600 PAGES OF EPISODES AND ANECDOTES FROM EVERY corner of the American Civil War, Evelyn Scott's 1929 novel The Wave borrows liberally from the realistic and sentimental literary traditions that developed in response to that historical crisis. In the decades after the war, ...
Hell comes to Arcady: racial history and gothic memory in Evelyn Scott's Background in Tennessee.
Jun 22, 2006; Edwards, Tim ... BACKGROUND IN TENNESSEE, EVELYN SCOTT'S 1937 MEMOIR, SEEKS TO unpack the complicated baggage of the author's Southern childhood in Clarksville, Tennessee. While following the expatriate tack of so many American modernists, Evelyn Scott nevertheless admits in Background in Tennessee that ...
Erasing grace: a revised conversion experience in Evelyn Scott's The Gravestones Wept.
Jun 22, 2006; Maun, Caroline ... EVELYN SCOTT, AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN MODERNIST AND SOUTHERN writer, has been receiving increased and long overdue critical attention in the last decade. While most of this attention has been for her work as a novelist and a memoirist, Scott was also an was also an accomplished poet; she ...
Evelyn Scott's nonfiction prose: a supplemental bibliography.(Bibliography)
Jun 22, 2006; Jones, Paul Christian ... THE COLLECTION OF ESSAYS EVELYN SCOTT: RECOVERING A LOST MODERNIST (2001) included an annotated bibliography of Evelyn Scott's published nonfiction prose, compiled by Will Brantley and coveting forty-seven pieces written by Scott--primarily book reviews, letters to editors, and essays of a ...
A symposium: the US South, the Caribbean, and Latin America.(Look A way!: The U. S. South in New World Studies)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; Owada, Eiko ... Look A way!: The U. S. South in New World Studies. Ed. Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Duke UP, 2004. 521 pp. $99.95 cloth. $26.95 paper. EIKO OWADA Waseda University, Japan EXTENDING THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE MONOLITHIC FORMULATION of American-ness raised ...
After the new critics: reading Thomas Wolfe.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; Flora, Joseph M. ... Lay Down Your Ear upon the Earth, and Listen: Thomas Wolfe's Greener Modernism, by Robert Taylor Ensign. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.x, 156 pp. $29.95; Thomas Wolfe's Civil War, edited by David Madden. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. viii, 215 pp ....
Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; McFee, Michael ... Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It, by Miller Williams. Louisiana State UP, 2006. 127 pp. $18.95 paper. IN MAKING A POEM, MILLER WILLIAMS CALLS POETRY A "CONVINCING illusion of conversation," one enhanced (or not) by the way poets handle their ...
Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; Clark, Jim ... Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South, edited by John Lang. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 362 pp. $24.95. OF THE MANY FINE BOOKS DEALING WITH APPALACHIAN LITERATURE published in the past decade, John Lang's Appalachia and ...