A Cosmos of My Own

"A Cosmos of My Own" (Papers presented at the 1980 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi) Edited by Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie Contributors: Robert Hamblin, Panthea Reid Broughton, James B. Carothers, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Ellen Douglas, Charles Nilon, and Francois Pitavy. Reflecting recent developments in Faulkner criticism, the papers delivered at the 1980 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference point the way to a new and relatively unexplored avenue of research, that of the study of relationships among Faulkner"s seemingly distinct novels. No longer satisfied to look only at the individual work, critics are instead surveying the whole field of Faulkner"s fiction. Many of the papers in this volume direct attention to the full scope and range of Faulkner"s fictional world, searching for, and finding, unity, harmony, and interrelationships. Some of the essays, like Ellen Douglas"s "Faulkner in Time" and James Carothers"s "The Road to "The...