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James G. Watson
How Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography.
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James G. Watson,William Faulkner
In this first major study of epistolarity in Faulkner’s work, James G. Watson examines Faulkner’s personal correspondence as a unique second canon of writing, separate from his literary canon with…
Taking into consideration their personal, political, and artistic ways of responding to the histories and realities of their time and place, this volume offers comparative scholarship that forges new connections…
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New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity.
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James G. Sanderson,Patrick Watson
Did you know that most wild cat species are small and that lions, tigers, and other large cats are the exception? That adult bobcats, clouded leopards, and other small wild…
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The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers
A stimulating treatment of the intersection between history and literature in the Nobel Laureate’s work
Places William Faulkner’s literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the United States and the Caribbean. The volume’s seventeen essays and poetry selections chart lines…
Brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of William Faulkner’s relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic…
The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century’s most incisive authors on US slavery…
Brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the economic contexts of William Faulkner’s life and work, to follow the proverbial money toward new insights into the Nobel Laureate…
Family played an outsized role in both William Faulkner's life and writings, often in deeply problematic ways. The dozen essays featured in this collection approach Faulkner's many families - actual…
The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century's most incisive authors on US slavery…
A fascinating survey of Faulkner’s publishing history with periodicals and publishing houses
From insights into the Chickasaw sources and implications of Faulkner’s fictional place-name Yoknapatawpha , to discussions of the potential for indigenous land, family, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of…
Addresses the place of William Faulkner in the creation, design, publishing, marketing, reception, and collecting of books, in the culture of twentieth-century magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals, in the…
From insights into the Chickasaw sources of Faulkner’s fictional ‘Yoknapatawpha’, to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of Faulkner’s fiction, the…
Sir William Craigie,James A. C. Stevenson,Harry D. Watson,Harry D. Watson
This book is intended for all students, scholars, and enthusiasts in the fields of Scots language and history.
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This dictionary defines and illustrates the meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700, when the Scots language merged with standard English. Quotations accompany every…
A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across…
