Description: Essays that explore current scholarship on the Nobel Laureate's work
Brief description: Ann J. Abadie (1939-2024) was associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi as well as coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and other books published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: 'The text is back!' proclaims just one of these sparkling essays, but what these latest contributions to Faulkner scholarship really celebrate are the riches that continue to be mined by close readings of Faulkner's immense work, whether inspired by critical race theory, poststructuralism, or formalist aesthetics. The contributors to this volume bring to their own close readings a wealth of new insights about Faulkner's own attention to form and aesthetics, and the result is a collection that will ably serve classroom teachers and scholars alike.--Susan V. Donaldson, College of William and Mary