Panel. Print and the "Potboiler": Faulkner's Popular Reception

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Nutt Auditorium

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22-7-2015 11:00 AM

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  • "The Mysteries of Memphis: Sanctuary and the Pornographic Tradition / Amy A. Foley, University of Rhode Island
    This essay locates Faulkner’s Sanctuary within the printing tradition of the popular city mysteries novel that developed in the 1830s. In drawing comparisons between the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century sensationalist printing industry, I define and extend the boundaries of pornography from a historical, material and aesthetic perspective. Historically, I identify similar cultural conditions in the printing of Sanctuary and earlier sensational, subversive and pornographic texts. Aesthetically, I establish the novel within a regional city mysteries genre: Southern urban pornography.
  • James Avati, William Faulkner, and the Art of the Paperback Novel / M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College
    Artist James Avati (1912-2004) painted the covers for all seven of the William Faulkner novels issued in the Signet paperback series between 1949 and 1954. These paintings, arguably, gave Faulkner a higher cachet on the newsstand or drugstore racks than they might have had otherwise because of Avati’s associations with Erskine Caldwell and Mickey Spillane. This presentation undertakes a study of Avati, his part in the paperback revolution, his association with Faulkner, and his contribution to the popular perception of the author and his work.

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Jul 22nd, 11:00 AM

Panel. Print and the "Potboiler": Faulkner's Popular Reception

Nutt Auditorium

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  • "The Mysteries of Memphis: Sanctuary and the Pornographic Tradition / Amy A. Foley, University of Rhode Island
    This essay locates Faulkner’s Sanctuary within the printing tradition of the popular city mysteries novel that developed in the 1830s. In drawing comparisons between the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century sensationalist printing industry, I define and extend the boundaries of pornography from a historical, material and aesthetic perspective. Historically, I identify similar cultural conditions in the printing of Sanctuary and earlier sensational, subversive and pornographic texts. Aesthetically, I establish the novel within a regional city mysteries genre: Southern urban pornography.
  • James Avati, William Faulkner, and the Art of the Paperback Novel / M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College
    Artist James Avati (1912-2004) painted the covers for all seven of the William Faulkner novels issued in the Signet paperback series between 1949 and 1954. These paintings, arguably, gave Faulkner a higher cachet on the newsstand or drugstore racks than they might have had otherwise because of Avati’s associations with Erskine Caldwell and Mickey Spillane. This presentation undertakes a study of Avati, his part in the paperback revolution, his association with Faulkner, and his contribution to the popular perception of the author and his work.