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Polk, Noel Earl was born on February 23, 1943 in Picayune, Mississippi, United States. Son of Earl Everette and Norma Ayeleen (Hamilton) Polk.
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Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner
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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 ultimately revised Sanctuary, a novel to which Polk has given concentrated study during his distinguished career. He has connected the literature with the life in a way not achieved in previous criticism. Although other critics, notably John T. Irwin and Andre Bleikasten have explored Oedipal themes, neither perceived them as operating so completely at the center of Faulkner's work as Polk does in these essays.
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Outside the Southern Myth First edition by Polk, Noel (1997) Paperback
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Outside the Southern Myth
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Noel Polk, the Faulkner scholar and academician, is a native of the small Mississippi city of Picayune. In his career as an international scholar and traveler and in his role as a teacher and a professor of literature he has moved beyond his origins while continuing to be nourished by his hometown roots. Like many other southern men he doesn't fit the outside world's stereotype of the southern male. "I almost invariably see myself depicted in the media as either a beer-drinking meanspirited pickup-driving redneck racist, a julep-sipping plantation-owning kindhearted benevolent racist, or, at best, a nonracist good ole boy, one of several variations of Forrest Gump, good-hearted and retarded, who makes his way in the modern world not because he is intelligent but because he's - well, good hearted." In Outside the Southern Myth Polk offers an apologia for a huge segment of southern males and communities that don't belong in the media portraits. His town was not antebellum. There were no plantations. No Civil War battles were fought there. It had little racial divisiveness. It was one of the thousands that mushroomed along the railroads as a response to logging and milling industries. It was mainly middle-class, not reactionary or exclusive. While evoking both the pleasures and the problems of his past-band trips, a yearning for cityscapes, religious conversion, awakening to the realities of fundamentalist fervor- Polk offers himself, his family, and his town to exemplify an aspect that is more American than southern and a tradition that is not mired in the past. As he explores the ways in which his experience of the South defined him, he concludes that his life has been experienced in a parallel universe, not in a time warp. He and many like him exist outside the southern myth. Noel Polk is the author of Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner (University Press of Mississippi) and editor of the Reading Faulkner Series and of eleven Faulkner texts for Random House, The Library of America, and Vintage International.
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Noel Earl Polk
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Noel Earl Polk, American English educator. E-mail: [email protected]. National Endowment for Humanities research grantee, 1979-1981, 86-88, 89, American Council Learned Socs. travelgrantee, 1985. Member Modern Language Association, South Center Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Mississippi History Society.
Education
Bachelor, Mississippi College, 1965; Master of Arts, Mississippi College, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 1970.
Career
Assistant Professor of English, University Texas, Arlington, 1970-1974; associate professor Southern studies program, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1974-1976; private practice as researcher, Columbia, 1976-1977; assistant professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1977-1978; associate professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1979-1982; Professor of English,, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, since 1983. President Mississippi Institute Arts and Letters, 1979-1980, 88, 98-99. Member Committee forScholarly Editions, New York 1983-1988.
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Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner
( This book by a major scholar of William Faulkner's writ...)
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Outside the Southern Myth
( Noel Polk, the Faulkner scholar and academician, is a n...)
- Sanctuary: The Original Text, 1981 : A Concordance to the Novel (Faulkner Concordances)
- Outside the Southern Myth First edition by Polk, Noel (1997) Paperback
- (Outside the Southern Myth ) Author: Noel Polk Nov-2011
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Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner
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Member Modern Language Association, South Center Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Mississippi History Society.
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Married Patricia Edna Parrott, January 29, 1967 (divorced 1990). Children: Jennifer, Scott.
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