Jay Watson
Jay Watson is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of many publications, including William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity,Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner, and Fossil-Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South. He is also coeditor of multiple volumes in University Press of Mississippi’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.
Faulkner and Print Culture
A fascinating survey of Faulkner’s publishing history with periodicals and publishing houses
Faulkner and History
A stimulating treatment of the intersection between history and literature in the Nobel Laureate’s work
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas
The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers
Faulkner's Geographies
Essays that study mobility, place, and spatial imagination in the Nobel laureate’s work
Faulkner and Whiteness
An exploration of the Nobel Lauerate’s work and its interrogations of whiteness
Conversations with Larry Brown
Interviews with the author of Dirty Work, Father and Son, Joe, and Big Bad Love
Faulkner and Money
A thorough assay of the Nobel Laureate through the lens of lucre
Faulkner and the Native South
An exploration of the Nobel laureate’s engagement with Native Americans and the ways in which Native American writing illuminates Faulkner
Fifty Years after Faulkner
Essays that reassess Faulkner’s life and career a half century after his death
Faulkner and Slavery
A long-awaited assessment of the Nobel laureate’s work in relation to America’s cosmic sin
Faulkner's Families
A new and fascinating volume that explores the theme of family in the works by the great Mississippi writer
Faulkner, Welty, Wright
A Mississippi Confluence
An engaging, diverse collection that considers together a trio of Mississippi literary giants
- Copyright year: 2024