Faulkner and Women Writers
Location
Ole Miss Union Room 404
Start Date
31-7-1985 10:30 AM
Description
Although Faulkner’s artistic indebtedness to his male literary predecessors has been much discussed and quite well documented, little has been said about ways in which he might have been influenced by women writers whose work he conceivably read during his formative and apprentice years. This paper explores the topic in a general way and goes on to consider specific parallels between the fiction of Faulkner’s early and middle period and that of those women who may have been among his literary ”foremothers," especially selected American novelists who published their major work during the first three decades of this century.
Relational Format
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
Wittenberg, Judith Bryant, "Faulkner and Women Writers" (1985). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 16.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/1985/schedule/16
Faulkner and Women Writers
Ole Miss Union Room 404
Although Faulkner’s artistic indebtedness to his male literary predecessors has been much discussed and quite well documented, little has been said about ways in which he might have been influenced by women writers whose work he conceivably read during his formative and apprentice years. This paper explores the topic in a general way and goes on to consider specific parallels between the fiction of Faulkner’s early and middle period and that of those women who may have been among his literary ”foremothers," especially selected American novelists who published their major work during the first three decades of this century.