Book Description
The essays collected in Faulkner and the Ecology of the South explore Faulkner's environmental imagination, seeking what Ann Fisher-Wirth calls the "ecological counter-melody" of his texts. "Ecology" was not a term in common use outside the sciences in Faulkner's time. However, the word "environment" seems to have held deep abiding meaning for Faulkner. Often he repeated his abiding interest in "man in conflict with himself, with his follow man, or with his time and place, his environment."
Eco-criticism has led to a renewed interest among literary scholars for what in this volume Cecelia Tichi calls, "humanness with congeries of habitats and environments." Philip Weinstein draws on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus. Eric Gary Anderson argues that Faulkner's fiction has much to do with ecology in the sense that his work often examines the ways in which human communities interact with the natural world. Francois Pitavy sees Faulkner's wilderness as unnatural in the ways it represents reflections of man's longings and frustrations. Throughout these essays, schollors illuminate in fresh ways the precarious ecosystem of Yoknapatawpha County.
Publisher comments
---Includes essays by such prominent scholars as Philip Weinstein and Cecelia Tichi
---Includes contributions from Eric Gary Anderson (George Mason University), Seth Berner (independent; Portland, Maine), Jeanne de la Houssaye (independent; New Orleans), Ann Fisher-Wirth (University of Mississippi), Thomas L. McHaney (Georgia State University), François Pitavy (University of Burgundy), Scott Slovic (University of Nevada–Reno), Cecelia Tichi (Vanderbilt University), Joseph Urgo (University of Mississippi) Michael Wainwright (University of London), and Philip Weinstein (independent) --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
