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  | | Outside the Southern Myth(1st Edition) by Noel Polk Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1997 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-980-5, ISBN: 0-87805-980-6 "Noel Polk, the Faulkner scholar and academician, is a native of the small Mississippi city of Picayune. In his career as an international scholar and traveler and in his role as a teacher and a professor of literature he has moved beyond his origins while continuing to be nourished by his hometown roots. Like many other southern men he doesn't fit the outside world's stereotype of the southern male. "I almost invariably see myself depi ..." |
 | | Children of the Dark House Text and Context in Faulkner by Noel Polk Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ Pr Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-867-9, ISBN: 0-87805-867-2 |
 | | Eudora Welty(1st Edition) A Bibliography of Her Work by Noel Polk, Suzanne Marrs Hardcover, 517 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-566-1, ISBN: 0-87805-566-5 "This full-dress bibliography of the works of one of America's greatest writers contains essential information for all serious scholars of Eudora Welty and her long and distinguished career. It is a complete record of the rich treasury of the various physical forms in which her books have been published and reprinted over the course of her long life in professional writing. Her career, begun in 1936 when she published her first short sto ..." |
 | | William Faulkner(1st Edition) Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (Library of America) by William Faulkner, Noel Polk, Joseph Blotner Hardcover, 1,170 Pages, Published 2006 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-931082-89-1, ISBN: 1-931082-89-8 "The Library of America edition of the novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes) expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read. In these four novels we can track Faulkner's extraordinary evolution as, over the course of a few years, he discovers and ma ..." |
 | | All the King's Men(1st Edition) by Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 2002 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-601295-9, ISBN: 0-15-601295-2 "Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. It traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and caught in a lust for power. All the King's Men is as relevant ..." |
 | | William Faulkner(Updated) Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (Library of America) by William Faulkner, Joseph Blotner, Noel Polk, Joseph Leo Blotner Hardcover, 1,148 Pages, Published 1990 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-0-940450-55-4, ISBN: 0-940450-55-0 "The four novels in this Library of America collection show Faulkner at the height of his powers and fully demonstrate the range of his genius. They explore the tragic and comic aspects of a South haunted by its past and uncertain of its future.In the intricate, spellbinding masterpiece Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Quentin Compson descends into a vortex of images, voices, passions, and doomed desires as he and his Harvard roommate re-create ..." |
 | | Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition (Paperback) by Noel Polk Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-853-7, ISBN: 1-60473-853-7 "As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures, written journal articles and essays, and discussed the rich legacy of the South's literary heritage around the world for over three decades. His work on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, and other writers is incisive and groundbreaking. His essays in Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition maintain an abiding interest i ..." |
 | | Reading Faulkner(Updated) Absalom, Absalom! (Reading Faulkner Series) by Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk, Polk Urgo Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-578-9, ISBN: 1-60473-578-3 "For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner's masterpieces Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted s ..." |
 | | Reading Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! (Reading Faulkner Series) by Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-434-8, ISBN: 1-60473-434-5 "For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner's masterpieces Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted s ..." |
 | | William Faulkner(1st Edition) Novels, 1957-1962: The Town / The Mansion / The Reivers (Library of America) by William Faulkner, Noel Polk, Joseph Blotner, Joseph Leo Blotner, Edith Wharton Hardcover, 1,020 Pages, Published 1999 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-883011-69-7, ISBN: 1-883011-69-8 "William Faulkner’s fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County culminates in his three last novels, rich with the accumulated history and lore of the microcosmic domain where he set most of his work. Faulkner wanted to use the time remaining to him to achieve a summing-up of his fictional world: “I know I won’t live long enough to write all I need to write about my imaginary country and county,” he wrote to a friend, “so I must not wast ..." |
 | | Faulkner and War by Noel Polk, Ann J. Abadie Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-851-3, ISBN: 1-60473-851-0 "American Literature -- Literary Criticism There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a veteran flyer, for he had enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in Canada. In his novels, short stories, essays, and letters, war remained a looming subject. "Faulkner and War," a collection of essays from the Faulkner an ..." |
 | | Natchez before 1830 by Noel Polk Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2009 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-535-2, ISBN: 1-60473-535-X "This informative study representing a variety of scholarly perspectives reveals the cultural, historical, economic, political, and even geographical evolution of Old Natchez, which until now has been given little attention. In some ways, Natchez is among the best-known of American towns. Because of its strategic location high atop the Mississippi River bluffs, it became, in the early years of this country s development, the cultural an ..." |
 | | Mississippi's Piney Woods A Human Perspective by Noel Polk Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1986 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-865-0, ISBN: 1-60473-865-0 "Mississippi's Piney Woods: A Human Perspective edited by Noel Polk with essays by Harold K. Steen, John H. Napier III, Terry G. Jordan, Grady McWhiney, Thomas D. Clark, Nollie W. Hickman, James C. Downey, W. Kenneth Holditch, Thomas L. McHaney, William F. Winter, Warren A. Flick, Milton B. Newton, Jr., Sidney McDaniel, and Noel Polk. For years the Mississippi Piney Woods region has gone virtually untouched by historians, though J. F. H. ..." |
 | | Walking Safari Or, the Hippo Highway and Other Poems by Noel Polk Paperback, 98 Pages, Published 2012 by Texas Review Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-74-8, ISBN: 1-933896-74-4 "The poems in the first part of this book are set in and/or inspired by my walking safari in the South Luangwa Valley of Zambia in the summer of 2010." |
 | | Children of the Dark House(2nd Edition) Text and Context in Faulkner by Noel Polk Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-103-7, ISBN: 1-57806-103-2 "This book by a major scholar of William Faulkner's writings collects choice selections of his Faulkner criticism from the past fifteen years. Its publication underscores the significance of his indispensable work in Faulkner studies, both in criticism and in the editing of Faulkner's texts. Here, Polk's focus is mainly upon the context of Freudian themes, expressly in the works written between 1927 and 1932, the period in which Faulkne ..." |
 | | Reading Faulkner(Updated) The Sound and the Fury (Reading Faulkner (Paperback)) by Stephen M. Ross, Noel Polk Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1996 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-936-2, ISBN: 0-87805-936-9 "This volume guides readers through one of William Faulkner’s most complex novels. By common consent The Sound and the Fury is a seminal document of twentieth-century literature. Almost from the beginning, it has been a litmus test for critical approaches―from New Criticism to biography and manuscript analysis.In the past two decades, nearly all of the newest critical theories have come calling on Faulkner’s novel. Yet it resists or evad ..." |
 | | All the King's Men(Updated) by Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk, Patricia Wrede Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2001 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100610-6, ISBN: 0-15-100610-5 "One of the great classics of American fiction reissued as it was originally written.Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politic ..." |
 | | All the King's Men(2nd Edition) by Robert Penn Warren, Joseph Blotner, Noel Polk Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 1996 by Harcourt Brace ISBN-13: 978-0-15-600480-0, ISBN: 0-15-600480-1 "This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, Jack Burden -- who narrates the ..." |
 | | William Faulkner Novels 1942-1954 : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable (Library of America) by William/ B. Faulkner, Noel Polk, Joseph Blotner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, Thomas L. Mchaney, Joseph Polk, Joseph Leo Blotner Hardcover, 1,110 Pages, Published 1994 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-0-940450-85-1, ISBN: 0-940450-85-2 "The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner’s rise to literary celebrity—sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award for 1954. But, despite his success, he was plagued by depression and alcohol and haunted by a sense that he had more to achieve—and a finite amount of time and energy to achieve it.This Library of America volume collects the novels written duri ..." |
 | | New Essays on The Sound and the Fury(1st Edition) (The American Novel) by Noel Polk, Emory Elliot Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 1993 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-45114-7, ISBN: 0-521-45114-0 "William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury met with only limited success when published in 1929, probably due to its fragmented, non-chronological structure. Since, however, it has become one of the most popular of Faulkner's novels, serving as a litmus paper upon which critical approaches have tested themselves. In the introduction to this volume Noel Polk traces the critical responses to the novel from the time of its publication to t ..." |
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