Faulkner

A highly productive year in William Faulkner scholarship includes an impressive new biography as well as a high-profile work of criticism for the trade market that examines the resonance of the Civil War in his writings. Several significant projects consider Faulkner in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement and the alt-right movement that have defined the poles of contemporary politics, and others apply new, innovative theoretical methods, demonstrating that almost any approach finds opportunity in a canon which continues to prove itself relevant to current events and modes of criticism.