Critical Essays on William Faulkner

Robert W. Hamblin is professor emeritus of English and founding director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. He has authored or edited nineteen books on Faulkner, including A William Faulkner Encyclopedia; Myself and the World: A Biography of William Faulkner, published by University Press of Mississippi; and My Life with Faulkner and Brodsky.

Robert W. Hamblin has had a special career that has taken him into every conceivable dimension of Faulkner studies, from working with Oprah's Summer of Faulkner to the Brodsky Collection to the Center for Faulkner Studies to Teaching Faulkner: Approaches and Methods. Like such forebears as Cleanth Brooks and Noel Polk, Hamblin has been an important face of Faulkner to both academia and the general public. Along the way, he has produced a body of work that has moved lithely through the full range of Faulkner's writings and biography to enlighten scholars, teachers, and enthusiasts. These collected essays exemplify that career, blending solid discussions that can orient any reader in Faulkner's difficult prose while also offering to scholars powerful theoretical rubrics such as Faulkner's 'saying No to death' and his meditations on Faulkner and the nature of art.--Taylor Hagood, author of Following Faulkner: The Critical Response to Yoknapatawpha's Architect Critical Essays on William Faulkner brings together essays, research guides, and lectures from across the career of Bob Hamblin, one of the most prominent Faulkner scholars of his generation. These works are an archive of Faulkner criticism in themselves and offer perceptive insights into Faulkner's work, share revealing context from the archives at Southeast Missouri State University, and demonstrate changing approaches to Faulkner criticism.--David A. Davis, author of World War I and Southern Modernism