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Although he belonged to an American generation of writers deeply influenced by high modernist revolt nature and against self-imposed limits of realism to a palpable world, William reveals throughout his work an abiding sensitivity to natural world. He writes of big woods, of animals, and of human body as a ground of being that art and culture can neither transcend nor completely control. eleven essays that make up this volume, including a paper written by acclaimed novelist William Kennedy, explore place of the unbuilt world in Faulkner's fiction. They give particular attention to social, mythic, and economic significance of nature, to complexity of racial identity, and to inevitable clash of gender and sexuality. These essays were presented in 1996 as papers at and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held annually at University of Mississippi. Included are following: Lawrence Buell's Faulkner and Claims of Natural World; Thomas L. McHaney's Oversexing Natural World; Theresa M. Towner's Color, Race, and Identity in Faulkner's Fiction; Jay Watson's The Art of Literal in Light in August; Mary Joanne Dondlinger's The Matter of Race and Gender in Faulkner's Light in August; Louise Westling's Sutpen's Marriage to Dark Body of Land; Myra Jehlen's Faulkner and Unnatural; Diane Roberts's Eula, Linda, and Death of Nature; David H. Evans's 'The Bear' and Incarnation of America; Wiley C. Prewitt, Jr.'s Hunting and Habitat in Yoknapatawpha; and William Kennedy's Learning from Faulkner: Obituary of Fear. Donald M. Kartiganer, Howry Chair of Studies in Department of English, and Ann J. Abadie, Associate Director of Center for Study of Southern Culture, teach at University of Mississippi.
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