The Mississippi Quarterly, June 22nd, 1999
William Faulkner's Short Fiction: An International Symposium, edited by Hans H. Skei, Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1997. 329 pp. $34.95;
EVERY ARTIST NEEDS "a special world of which he alone has the key," noted Andre Gide in one of his journals. In his slim volume on Faulkner's Place, a collection of essays first published between 1977 and 1989, veteran critic Michael Millgate makes heavy weather of this remark and argues that Faulkner's "special world" was actually far bigger than the now almost proverbial "postage stamp of native soil." Yoknapatawpha is a "region of the mind," a writer's extended ...
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