...Adam Long 9 Faulkner Adam Long This has been an active year in William Faulkner scholarship, with four major book-length collections of articles, two issues of the Faulkner Journal, several Faulkner-focused sections of other major journals, and a variety of other book- and article...

...Taylor Hagood American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8225368 © 2020 by Duke University Press 9 Faulkner Taylor Hagood This year finds relatively fewer publications on William Faulkner (the calm before a storm of output in 2019, as forecast by press announce- ments...

...Taylor Hagood Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Faulkner Taylor Hagood is year sees a resurgence in quantity of William Faulkner scholarship after a down year in . Among the paradigm-shifting scholarly works by both major and up-and-coming scholars are the most sustained treat...

...Theresa M. Towner Duke University Press 2009 9  Faulkner Theresa M. Towner “Memory believes before knowing remembers,” the narrator of Light in August tells us. “Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.” My own memory contains an anecdote I have second...

...Deborah Clarke © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 9 Faulkner Deborah Clarke William Faulkner’s work continues to generate significant amounts of criticism, and this year welcomes the publication of a monograph, two anthologies, and numerous articles. There are no issues...

...Joseph R. Urgo Duke University Press 2005 9 Faulkner Joseph R. Urgo Holistic studies on Faulkner continue to increase, with single-text read- ings in decline again this year. The exception is a major study of Go Down, Moses. An expansive sense of Faulkner is presented by those...

...Joseph R. Urgo Duke University Press 2006 9  Faulkner Joseph R. Urgo Three trends continue. First, the influence of “the global south,” the study of the American South in comparison to other “souths” and in an international context, is making its mark in Faulkner studies...

...Theresa M. Towner Duke University Press 2008 8  Faulkner Theresa M. Towner The guide for contributors to this volume asks us to “write for intelligent readers, though not necessarily knowing ones” and to “use language of general accessibility rather than of theoretical coteries...

...Theresa M. Towner Duke University Press 2007 9  Faulkner Theresa M. Towner Faulkner studies continue to benefit from criticism’s fickle tendencies. Several areas once judged by a majority of Faulknerians as “irrelevant” to productive engagement with his novels have found...

...Theresa M. Towner Duke University Press 2010 9  Faulkner Theresa M. Towner The year saw fewer individual essays on William Faulkner than in the past five years but more monographs, including a number of introduc- tory volumes aimed at general audiences. His work continues...

...Theresa M. Towner Duke University Press 2011 9 Faulkner Theresa M. Towner The year saw many reinventions of the wheel. The continuing trend among critics is to avoid or ignore extant scholarship—perhaps on the assumption that nothing published before one’s own work could in any...

...Adam Long © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 9 Faulkner Adam Long Though this year’s William Faulkner scholarship is less voluminous than usual, in part because of lags in publication of the Faulkner Journal, it is no less rich. The major critical thrust of the year...

...Ted Atkinson © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 9 Faulkner Ted Atkinson A survey of the William Faulkner studies landscape in 2010 shows that the author’s “postage stamp of native soil” remains a favorite destination for scholars toting an array of critical baggage. True to form...

...Peter Lurie © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 9 Faulkner Peter Lurie This year sees the continuation of certain patterns in recent William Faulkner scholarship as well as a few surprises. There is not a single Faulkner monograph, but there are more articles than usual, due...

...Philip Cohen; Joseph R. Urgo © 2000 Duke University Press 2000 9 Faulkner Philip Cohen and Joseph R. Urgo The two of us wrote this chapter collaboratively and use we through- out the essay for the sake of consistency, but we individually reviewed and commented on each other s work...

...Philip Cohen; Joseph R. Urgo © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 9 Faulkner Philip Cohen and Joseph R. Urgo The two of us wrote this chapter collaboratively, and ‘‘we’’ is used throughout the essay for the sake of consistency. In AmLS 1998 (p. 153) we implied...

...Joseph R. Urgo Duke University Press 2002 9 Faulkner Joseph R. Urgo This year’s Faulkner scholarship is marked by two volumes from the centenary year celebrations, by special issues on modernism and mas- culinity, and by holistic critical assessments. The Faulkner Journal...

...Joseph R. Urgo Duke University Press 2003 9 Faulkner Joseph R. Urgo We are seeing a return to holistic studies of Faulkner and a burgeoning of interest in his Hollywood career. Faulkner’s contribution to intellectual history is the subject of excellent essays...