Joseph R Urgo
Biographic Data
| ID | 979163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph R Urgo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph R |
| FAMILY NAME | Urgo |
| SIGNATURE | URGO J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryant University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories; Percyscapes
Book Review| March 01 2000 Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories; Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction By Hans H. Skei. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xi, 263 pp.$39.95.By Robert W. Rudnicki. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xx,167 pp. $30.00. Joseph Urgo Joseph Urgo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 204–206. https://doi.org/10…
Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration
Children of the Dark House
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 Faulkner wrote and…
Racial Formations/Critical Transformations
Journal Article Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States. E. San Juan, Jr. New Jersey and London: Humanities Press, 1992. ix + 163 pages. $35.00. Get access Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States. E. San Juan. New Jersey and London: Humanities Press, 1992. ix + 163 pages. $35.00. Joseph R. Urgo …
Novel Frames
Faulkner's Subject
Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction
Faulkner's Apocrypha
Sutpen's Design
This text is both a critical study of William Faulkner's novel and an account of its critical history. The author argues that other critics have misunderstood both the plot and the narrative technique of this work
Faulkner's Apocrypha
Absalom, Absalom
TrHE view that Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner's greatest novel, his most complex and rewarding literary work, makes it easy to forget that the novel was written for the most part in Hollywood while Faulkner was paid scriptwriter. He would work on the novel early in the morning before going to the studio to write screenplays, participate in story conferences, and work on location at various film projects. The novel contains number of indeli…
Creating Faulkner's Reputation
William Faulkner and the Drama of Meaning
Faulkner and Women
New Essays on "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
1. Introduction Eric J. Sundquist 2. Strategies of black characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the early Afro-American novel Richard Yarborough 3. Doing it herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and woman's role in the slavery crisis Jean Fagan Yellin 4. Gothic imagination and social reform: the haunted houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe Karen Halttunen 5. Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher …
Kate Chopin
Temple Drake's Truthful Perjury
RITICAL views of Sanctuary accept without question the perjury of Temple Drake as the evil climax to novel which seems to overflow with sin.1 Her apparently perjurious testimony only adds to the contempt critics have had for her. In one article it is said that Temple receives what she deserves.2 Others have referred to her as a perverted Virgin,3 said that she initiated and stimulated the events leading to her rape,4 and concluded that she prosti…
Absalom, Absalom
TrHE view that Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner's greatest novel, his most complex and rewarding literary work, makes it easy to forget that the novel was written for the most part in Hollywood while Faulkner was paid scriptwriter. He would work on the novel early in the morning before going to the studio to write screenplays, participate in story conferences, and work on location at various film projects. The novel contains number of indeli…
Temple Drake's Truthful Perjury
RITICAL views of Sanctuary accept without question the perjury of Temple Drake as the evil climax to novel which seems to overflow with sin.1 Her apparently perjurious testimony only adds to the contempt critics have had for her. In one article it is said that Temple receives what she deserves.2 Others have referred to her as a perverted Virgin,3 said that she initiated and stimulated the events leading to her rape,4 and concluded that she prosti…
Kate Chopin
William Faulkner and the Drama of Meaning
Faulkner and Women
New Essays on "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
1. Introduction Eric J. Sundquist 2. Strategies of black characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the early Afro-American novel Richard Yarborough 3. Doing it herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and woman's role in the slavery crisis Jean Fagan Yellin 4. Gothic imagination and social reform: the haunted houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe Karen Halttunen 5. Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher …
Creating Faulkner's Reputation
Faulkner's Apocrypha
Absalom, Absalom
TrHE view that Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner's greatest novel, his most complex and rewarding literary work, makes it easy to forget that the novel was written for the most part in Hollywood while Faulkner was paid scriptwriter. He would work on the novel early in the morning before going to the studio to write screenplays, participate in story conferences, and work on location at various film projects. The novel contains number of indeli…
Faulkner's Apocrypha
Sutpen's Design
This text is both a critical study of William Faulkner's novel and an account of its critical history. The author argues that other critics have misunderstood both the plot and the narrative technique of this work
Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction
Faulkner's Subject
Racial Formations/Critical Transformations
Journal Article Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States. E. San Juan, Jr. New Jersey and London: Humanities Press, 1992. ix + 163 pages. $35.00. Get access Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States. E. San Juan. New Jersey and London: Humanities Press, 1992. ix + 163 pages. $35.00. Joseph R. Urgo …
Novel Frames
Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration
Children of the Dark House
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 Faulkner wrote and…
Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories; Percyscapes
Book Review| March 01 2000 Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories; Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction By Hans H. Skei. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xi, 263 pp.$39.95.By Robert W. Rudnicki. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xx,167 pp. $30.00. Joseph Urgo Joseph Urgo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 204–206. https://doi.org/10…
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