...RICHARD PEARCE ERIK DUSSERE, Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economics of Slavery (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 176, cloth, $65.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Fictions of the Balance Sheet: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economics...

...Seo Hee Im Abstract “The Ghost in the Account Book” claims that the imperial fiction of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner rejects accounting as a totalizing logic and, by extension, questions the English novel's complicity in propagating faith in that false logic. Accounting, which had remained...

...Patrick O'Donnell WEINSTEIN PHILIP , Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner ( New York : Oxford UP , 2010 ), pp. 250 , cloth, $29.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Work Cited Irwin John T. Doubling and Incest / Repetition...

...MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE THADIOUS M. DAVIS, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (Durham: Duke UP, 2003), pp. 339, $79.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Strategies of Containment: Faulkner's Narratives of Race...

... that resembles both a formal experiment and a simple writerly failure. It then turns to the work of William Faulkner, whose novels Sanctuary and Absalom, Absalom! reveal a buried alliance between criticism's customary ways of understanding glitches and an older modernist aesthetics. In Absalom, Absalom...

... aspirations animating William Faulkner's Depression-era achievement. In this case, the guiding claim is that his novelistic enterprise culminates in a reflexive analysis of the fantasy organizing his literary labors throughout the period. More precisely, “The Bear” in Go Down Moses reveals the extent to which...

... House (1927) turns away from the possibilities explored by Lawrence, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, seeking instead moments of aesthetic translucence, the overlay of one image, or one sound, on top of another. Such moments of overlay (or overtone) encapsulate the problem...

...BENJAMIN WIDISS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Works Cited Bleikasten , André . Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying . 1970. Revised ed. Trans. Roger Little. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973 . Bleikasten , André . The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner’s Novels from The Sound...

...Avak Hasratian DUVALL JOHN N. , Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 ), pp. 194 , cloth, $80.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Ellison Ralph . “Change the Joke...

... and ignorance were the major forms of unknowing Weinstein was intent on exploring, this book would present a provocative, but fundamentally reas- suring account of how the great modernist noveiists-especially Kaflca, Proust, and Faulkner-imaginatively performed the work of unknowing. Weinstein...

... of the book elaborates this thesis through readings of works by black women writers from the 70s and 80s-Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, and Bessie Head; in the second half, Taylor uses the insights of these texts to revisit modernist works by William Faulkner, Gertrude...

... of parsing the camera’s effects on the conception of similitude itself. Photos do feature in the works of Burrows’s chosen writers—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright—and, in some cases, plots turn decisively on the strength of photographic...

...—as great American writers in the same unqualified way that William Faulkner is so claimed and Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain. I would fool few who know me, however, least of all myself, if I were to argue that the race and gender of Morrison are unimportant, unremarkable—that Morrison's winning the Nobel...

... in Books 1550–1800 . Oxford: Clarendon P, 1989 . Richardson , Samuel . “An Address to the Public on The Treatment which the Editor of the History of Sir Charles Grandison has met with from certain Booksellers and Printers in Dublin. Including Observations On Mr. Faulkner’s Defence of Himself...

...Lawrence K. Stanley KEITH GANDAL, The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the Fiction of Mobilization (New York: Oxford UP, 2008), pp. 271, cloth, $55.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Hemingway , Ernest . “Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter...

... discourses from identity politics to queer theory, juggling genres as diverse as slave narratives and science fiction and authors as far removed from each other as Harriet Jacobs, William Faulkner, and Octavia Butler, Against the Closet is no traditional literary study. But the ride it takes us...

... felt quite virtuous in writing critically about Faulkner-who as a canonical white male writer is available for revision and censure as well as approbation-but that such balance is-much more difficult to achieve with the contemporary Morrison, who is a kind of cultural hero as well as a great...

... of The Known World neatly contends that Jones's novel rewrites the historical trajectory of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! In place of Faulkner's sense of American history as doomed from the very beginning, The Known World' s experiments with tense demonstrate a concern to locate within the horror...

... objects, from canonical modernist works to contemporary novels and films to the It Gets Better Project. The list of authors covered is impressive. Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, William James, Henry James, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison all have substantial...

... the Northeast, the discussion moves to the deep South to examine the plantation, convict leasing, and the prison farm alongside William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! The figure of the cellular soul becomes more clearly racialized in the antebellum South: he is a “white penitent...