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Chapter 14 - Fossil-Fuel Faulkner: Energy and Modernity in the US South
- from Part III - Interfaces
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- By Jay Watson
- Edited by Sarah Gleeson-White, University of Sydney, Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
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- The New William Faulkner Studies
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- 23 June 2022
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- 07 July 2022, pp 231-247
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Focusing on the role of the American South in the developing energy regimes of the United States offers a needed alternative to popular perceptions, national discourses, and scholarly accounts of the region as an abjected internal other that trailed the nation both temporally and developmentally.1 The twentieth century saw the emergence of the South as a vanguard energy region, with industrial-scale bituminous coal mining in Kentucky and the Virginias; oil booms in Texas, Oklahoma, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico; one of the nation’s largest concentrations of petroleum refineries along the lower Mississippi River in Louisiana; and the TVA hydroelectric frontier of the 1930s and 1940s. Inasmuch as this rise from energy periphery to energy core has been one of the region’s most significant historical transitions in the past century, we might expect intimations of this transition to trickle into the literature of the twentieth-century South. To date, literary critics have been slow to explore these connections.
Chapter 14 - Women Writers and the Southern Renaissance; or, the Work of Gender in Literary Periodization
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- By Jay Watson
- Edited by Harilaos Stecopoulos
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- A History of the Literature of the U.S. South
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- 29 April 2021
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- 20 May 2021, pp 227-243
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Following Carol S. Manning’s argument that “the real beginning” of the Southern Renaissance anticipates by a generation or more the standard dating of the phenomenon to the post-World War I decade, this chapter links the achievements of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century women writers who were instrumental in guiding the region’s literature and art into intellectual modernity, to a distinguished interwar cohort of women authors who inherited and extended their predecessors’ critique of the American South. It situates figures like Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Frances Harper, Ida B. Wells, Mary Noialles Murfree, Anna Julia Cooper, Helen Keller, and Ellen Glasgow as inaugurators of a “long Renascence” that reaches from the 1880s to the 1950s to include now-canonical authors like Katherine Anne Porter, Nella Larsen, Caroline Gordon, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and Lillian Smith, alongside lesser-studied writers like Julia Peterkin, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Evelyn Scott, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Frances Newman, Grace Lumpkin, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Chapter 5 - William Faulkner
- from Part II - Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Allusions
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- By Jay Watson
- Edited by Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield
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- Cormac McCarthy in Context
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- 12 December 2019
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- 02 January 2020, pp 47-58
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From the first reviews of The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy’s debut novel – published just three years after William Faulkner’s death and edited by Albert Erskine, who had worked with the Nobel laureate at Random House – comparisons with Faulkner’s work have been irresistible in the discussion of McCarthy’s fiction. This chapter focuses on key moments in McCarthy’s oeuvre that suggestively cite, parody, contest, unwrite, or otherwise engage Faulkner’s writings, to mine these connections for deeper insights into theme, form, and vision in two of the most distinguished bodies of work in American fiction. Most explicit in Suttree, with its overt echoes and revisions of The Sound and the Fury, McCarthy’s running intertextual dialogue with Faulkner also surfaces to notable effect in All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, The Crossing, The Road, and the many places in McCarthy’s work where the county figures as a meaningful imaginative geography, political formation, or social unit – thereby conjuring the specter of Faulkner’s fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha, perhaps his supreme imaginative achievement. Other Faulkner works discussed include Absalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, and A Fable.
The Other Matter of the South
- Jay Watson
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- PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America / Volume 131 / Issue 1 / January 2016
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- 23 October 2020, pp. 157-161
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- January 2016
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In a recent book i suggested that what haunts the field of southern studies is not the proverbial specter so much as an insistent materiality that troubles and illuminates the spaces, communities, and minds of the southern United States. I made a case for human materiality, in its diverse manifestations and histories, as an important methodological tool in the study of the cultural logics, illogics, and resistances that have shaped and sometimes stymied life in what Leigh Anne Duck calls “the nation's region” (Watson 9-27). Here I want to make a briefer but complementary case for the centrality of other materialities in scholarship on that region. To access them effectively, southern studies will need to forge closer, more creative ties with the field of environmental studies and with the habit of mind that Timothy Morton calls “the ecological thought.”
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- By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. 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Quinn, Philip L. Quinn, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Diana Raffman, Gerard Raulet, Stephen L. Read, Andrews Reath, Andrew Reisner, Nicholas Rescher, Henry S. Richardson, Robert C. Richardson, Thomas Ricketts, Wayne D. Riggs, Mark Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Luke Robinson, Alexander Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkranz, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Adina L. Roskies, William L. Rowe, T. M. Rudavsky, Michael Ruse, Bruce Russell, Lilly-Marlene Russow, Dan Ryder, R. M. Sainsbury, Joseph Salerno, Nathan Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon, Constantine Sandis, David H. Sanford, Marco Santambrogio, David Sapire, Ruth A. Saunders, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Charles Sayward, James P. Scanlan, Richard Schacht, Tamar Schapiro, Frederick F. Schmitt, Jerome B. Schneewind, Calvin O. Schrag, Alan D. Schrift, George F. Schumm, Jean-Loup Seban, David N. Sedley, Kenneth Seeskin, Krister Segerberg, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Dennis M. Senchuk, James F. Sennett, William Lad Sessions, Stewart Shapiro, Tommie Shelby, Donald W. 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Thomasson, Katherine Thomson-Jones, Joshua C. Thurow, Vzalerie Tiberius, Terrence N. Tice, Paul Tidman, Mark C. Timmons, William Tolhurst, James E. Tomberlin, Rosemarie Tong, Lawrence Torcello, Kelly Trogdon, J. D. Trout, Robert E. Tully, Raimo Tuomela, John Turri, Martin M. Tweedale, Thomas Uebel, Jennifer Uleman, James Van Cleve, Harry van der Linden, Peter van Inwagen, Bryan W. Van Norden, René van Woudenberg, Donald Phillip Verene, Samantha Vice, Thomas Vinci, Donald Wayne Viney, Barbara Von Eckardt, Peter B. M. Vranas, Steven J. Wagner, William J. Wainwright, Paul E. Walker, Robert E. Wall, Craig Walton, Douglas Walton, Eric Watkins, Richard A. Watson, Michael V. Wedin, Rudolph H. Weingartner, Paul Weirich, Paul J. Weithman, Carl Wellman, Howard Wettstein, Samuel C. Wheeler, Stephen A. White, Jennifer Whiting, Edward R. Wierenga, Michael Williams, Fred Wilson, W. Kent Wilson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John F. Wippel, Jan Woleński, Allan B. Wolter, Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Rega Wood, W. Jay Wood, Paul Woodruff, Alison Wylie, Gideon Yaffe, Takashi Yagisawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Keith E. Yandell, Xiaomei Yang, Dean Zimmerman, Günter Zoller, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Jack A. Zupko (J.A.Z.)
- Edited by Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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- 05 August 2015
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- 27 April 2015, pp ix-xxx
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Chapter 21 - Writing after Faulkner
- from After Faulkner: A world of readers
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- By Jay Watson
- Edited by John T. Matthews, Boston University
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- William Faulkner in Context
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- 05 February 2015
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- 15 January 2015, pp 249-258
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- By Hosam Aboul-Ela, James D. Bloom, Keith Cartwright, Leigh Anne Duck, David M. Earle, Emron Esplin, Kristin Fujie, Ikuko Fujihira, Sarah Gleeson-White, Richard Godden, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Taylor Hagood, Charles Hannon, Lisa Hinrichsen, Robert Jackson, Catherine Gunther Kodat, Michael Kreyling, Barbara Ladd, Valérie Loichot, John T. Matthews, Jacques Pothier, Peter Schmidt, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Takako Tanaka, Jay Watson, Philip Weinstein
- Edited by John T. Matthews, Boston University
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- William Faulkner in Context
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- 05 February 2015
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- 15 January 2015, pp ix-xiii
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- By Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Jean-Jacques Becker, Richard Bessel, Ian M. Brown, Martin Ceadel, Dittmar Dahlmann, Stig Förster, Robert Gerwarth, Stefan Goebel, Frédéric Guelton, Heather Jones, Helmut Konrad, Alan Kramer, Samuël Kruizinga, Gerd Krumeich, Roy Macleod, Antoine Prost, Leonard V. Smith, Georges-Henri Soutou, David Stevenson, Barry Supple, Hans-Peter Ullmann, Alexander Watson, Arndt Weinrich, Jay Winter, Benjamin Ziemann
- Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
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- The Cambridge History of the First World War
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- 05 December 2013
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- 09 January 2014, pp xiv-xv
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15 - Flannery O'Connor
- from PART III - MAJOR AUTHORS
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- By Jay Watson
- Edited by John N. Duvall, Purdue University, Indiana
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945
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- 28 March 2012
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- 08 December 2011, pp 207-219
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Born March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Flannery O'Connor was an only child and a cradle Catholic in one of the most Protestant areas of the United States, the Deep South. Her father's declining health forced O'Connor and her mother to move to the latter's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia in 1938, where O'Connor began high school as a writer and illustrator for the student newspaper. Three years later her father died, at the age of forty-four, of disseminated lupus, an incurable autoimmune disease. The following year O'Connor entered Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, majoring in sociology and English, writing fiction and poetry for the college literary magazine, and contributing satirical cartoons to the yearbook. Her vivid visual sense and gift for caricature would inform her mature fiction, in striking depictions of rural and urban landscapes and deft, often devastating physical portraits of her characters.
After graduating in 1945, she went on to study journalism at the University of Iowa but soon joined the Writers' Workshop, the first program in the country to offer the MFA degree in creative writing. Guided by Workshop director Paul Engle and a series of mentors including John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Andrew Lytle, and Austin Warren – some of the founding figures in American New Criticism – she enjoyed almost instant success as a fiction writer, publishing her first story in 1946 and placing work with Mademoiselle and Sewanee Review the following year.