Faulkner and the Ecology of the South
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In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as ¿the only really authentic region in the United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists between man and his environment.¿ 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…mehr

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In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as ¿the only really authentic region in the United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists between man and his environment.¿ 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 Bourdieüs notion of habitus. Eric Gary Anderson argues that F
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Joseph R. Urgo (Editor) Joseph R. Urgo is chair of the English Department at the University of Mississippi. His books include Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!; Faulkner's Apocrypha; Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture; and In the Age of Distraction, among others, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Ann J. Abadie (Editor) Ann J. Abadie (1939-2024) was associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi as well as coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and other books published by University Press of Mississippi.