Noel Polk
Noel Polk (1943-2012) was professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi State University, author of many critical studies on Welty and Faulkner, and coeditor of the Library of America edition of Faulkner’s works.
Faulkner and War
A critical exploration of the effects and influence of America’s wars upon the works of the Nobel Prize laureate
Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition
Valuable scholarship from a leading textual critic on southern literature
Reading Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner’s masterpieces
Natchez before 1830
An informative study representing a variety of scholarly perspectives revealing the cultural, historical, economic, political and geographical evolution of Old Natchez
Children of the Dark House
Text and Context in Faulkner
Reading Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
A handbook for interpreting Faulkner’s great novel
Mississippi's Piney Woods
A Human Perspective
A groundbreaking volume in Mississippi studies in that it is an attempt to open the Piney Woods part of the state to historical and cultural scrutiny
On William Faulkner
A memorable literary record that marks the encounter of two great American writers
Eudora Welty
A Bibliography of Her Work
In complete detail the major bibliography of the works of one of America’s most admired writers