John Michael Corrigan

Bio

John Michael Corrigan (https://www.johncorrigan.me) is an Associate Professor of American Literature at National Chengchi University, Taipei City, Taiwan. He is the author of American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry (Fordham, 2012) and the co-editor of Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts (Routledge, 2019). He also serves as a senior collaborating editor of the University of Virginia’s Digital Yoknapatawpha (http://faulkner.iath.virginia.edu).

Contributions

Murder in the House of Memory: Faulkner and the Plantation Prototype of Flags in the Dust

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Scholars have long understood the centrality that the plantation house possesses as both institution and symbol in William Faulkner’s fictional world. The earliest critical investigations often approached his Yoknapatawpha County through a gothic literary lens, equating the plantation with the decline of the elite white families of the Old South—a line of inquiry often preserved by contemporary critics. Faulkner’s plantation is commonly interpreted as a type of Ozymandian warning, with the...

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