Axes: Willa Cather and William Faulkner

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U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 223 pages
Traces the intimate relationship between the texts published by Willa Cather and William Faulkner between 1922 and 1962.
 

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Contents

1 A Starting Point
1
2 Buzzing
21
3 Possession
41
4 The Sounds Become Fury
57
5 Dust Tracks on Some Roads
79
6 Sparring
99
7 Tit for Tat
117
8 Literary Hopscotch
133
9 Crossing the Finish Lines
155
Notes
177
Works Cited
185
Index
191
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About the author (2007)

Merrill Maguire Skaggs is Baldwin Professor of the Humanities at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She is the author of several books, including Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather and the City and After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather. She also publishes in the field of Southern and American literature and won the Edd Winfield Parks prize for her first book, The Folk of Southern Fiction.

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TitleAxes: Willa Cather and William Faulkner
Book collections on Project MUSE
AuthorMerrill Maguire Skaggs
PublisherU of Nebraska Press, 2007
ISBN0803256477, 9780803256477
Length223 pages
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