Faulkner and postmodernism

[Henry Secularpeturbations]

Metapphysical Club. Monderinism, Pragmatism, Eliot,
American....yeah, interesting review of M&D. And what
about all that pomo and jo? 

Jo and pomo
mo and jo 
and curley....


Title : Faulkner and postmodernism : Faulkner and
Yoknapatawpha, 1999 / edited by John N. Duvall and Ann
J. Abadie. 

Publisher : Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,
c2002.

Eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Conference, held at the University of Mississippi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
 
The privations of postmodernism : Faulkner as exemplar
(a meditation in ten parts) / Ihab Hassan --
Postmodern
intimations : musing on invisibility : William
Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison / Philip
Weinstein -- Postmodern Yoknapatawpha : William
Faulkner as usable past / John N. Duvall -- Modernist
design, postmodernist paranoia : reading          
Absalom, Absalom! with Gravity's rainbow / Molly Hite
-- I'm the man here" : Go down, Moses and masculine
identity / Terrell L. Tebbetts -- Revising The sound
and the fury : Absalom, Absalom! and Faulkner's
postmodern turn / Doreen Fowler -- Intertextuality,
transference, and postmodernism in Absalom, absalom! :
the production and reception of Faulkner's fictional
world / Martin Kreiswirth -- Postvomiting : Pylon and
the Faulknerian spew / Joseph R. Urgo -- Make room for
Elvis / Cheryl Lester -- Faulkner by the light of a
pale fire : postmodern textual scholarship and
Faulkner
studies at the end of the twentieth century / Philip
Cohen --My Faulkner / John Barth.


Since the 1960s, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most
famous author, has been recognized as a central figure
of international modernism. But might Faulkner's
fiction be understood in relation to Thomas Pynchon's
Gravity's Rainbow as well as James Joyce's Ulysses? In
eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Conference, held at the University of Mississippi,
Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner
and his fiction in light of postmodern literature,
culture, and theory. The volume explores the variety
of ways Faulkner's art can be used to measure
similarities and differences between modernism and
postmodernism.

Essays in the collection fall into three categories:
those that use Faulkner's novels as a way to mark a
period distinction between modernism and
postmodernism, those that see postmodern tendencies in
Faulkner's fiction, and those that read Faulkner
through the lens of postmodern theory's contemporary
legacy, the field of cultural studies. In order to 
make their particular arguments, essays in the
collection compare Faulkner to more contemporary
novelists such as Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov,
Thomas Pynchon, Walker
Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and Kathy Acker. 
But not all of the comparisons are to high culture
artists, since even Elvis Presley becomes Faulkner's
foil in one of the essays. A variety of theoretical
perspectives frame the work in this volume, from
Fredric Jameson's pessimistic sense of postmodernism's
possibilities to Linda Hutcheon's conviction
that cultural critique can continue in postmodernism
through innovative new forms such as metafiction.
Despite the different theoretical premises and
distinct conclusions of the individual authors of
these essays, Faulkner and Postmodernism proves once
again that in the key debates surrounding
twentieth-century
fiction, Faulkner is a crucial figure. 

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