Joseph R. Urgo is chair of the English Department at the University of Mississippi. His books include Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!; Faulkner's Apocrypha; Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture; and In the Age of Distraction, among others, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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