I thought you might like to see where we are as a class prior to working together this term. As you know, I surveyed you. Here are the results:
So a lot of virgins, which is great, and a full 60% who have read nothing or perhaps a short story or two. As you think about entering Faulkner’s county, especially if for the first time, you might check out this wonderful post and learn how to pronounce Yoknapatawpha from its creator.
Looking forward to meeting in person a week from tomorrow. In the meantime, a fortuitous email from an American Studies list I belong to features links to several articles on Faulkner that might be a good appetizer for some:
Guest blogger and Canadian Review of American Studies contributor, Philip Sayers, gives a preview of his article in the upcoming, and timely, special issue Culture and the Economization of Everything, in the new UTP Journals blog post – William Faulkner and the 2015 CUPE 3902 Strike: Thinking Outside the Ledger (http://bit.ly/SayersBlg).
Philip Sayers’ article “‘Just one thing more’: Absalom, Absalom! and the Creditor-Debtor Relationship” will appear in the upcoming Canadian Review of American Studies special Issue on Culture and the Economization of Everything (Volume 47 Issue 2), available Summer 2017. http://bit.ly/cras_online
