{"product_id":"faulkners-modernisms-paperback","title":"Faulkner's Modernisms - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJay Watson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames G. Jr. Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Benjamin S. Child, Leigh Anne Duck, John N. Duvall, Amy A. Foley, Susan Stanford Friedman, Michael Gleason, Jolene Hubbs, Anne MacMaster, Sean McCann, Maggie E. Morris Davis, Julian Murphet, Ben Robbins, Benoît Tadié, Jay Watson, and Michael Zeitlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew would dispute today that William Faulkner belongs among the front ranks of literary modernists, though he was not typically viewed in those terms when publishing his major works. But what sort of modernist--or modernists--was he? This collection examines the who, what, where, when, and how of Faulkner's modernism: its characters and cohort, its key subjects and themes, its locations and periodization, and its defining aesthetic strategies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays place Faulkner in dialogue with global modernists such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Richard Wright. Contributors explore his fascination with modern objects and architecture; his experiments in aviation and adaptation to avant-garde theater; the impact of modernity on childhood, family, and nation; his critique of eugenics, Fordism, and Taylorism; his phenomenology of race; and his movement from \"high\" to \"late\" modernism. They also question the very utility of the term \"modernism\" when applied to Faulkner's singular art. \u003ci\u003eFaulkner's Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e offers a bracing reappraisal of one of the twentieth century's most challenging and idiosyncratic writers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is Howry Emeritus Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of many publications, including \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eForensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also coeditor of multiple volumes in University Press of Mississippi's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series. \u003cb\u003eJames G. Thomas, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four-volume \u003ci\u003eNew Encyclopedia of Southern Culture \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mississippi Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecoeditor (with Jay Watson) of multiple volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series; and editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Barry Hannah. \u003c\/i\u003eHis work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEthnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67981500023038,"sku":"9781496864574","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/3XiWp47qpw9781496864574.webp?v=1793807604","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/faulkners-modernisms-paperback","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}