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''"There's a case of the sorry, shabby world that don't quite please you, so you create one of your own. . . ." Faulkner in the University, 59'' The Center for Faulkner Studies (CFS) is located at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. It is devoted to the study of the life and works of William Faulkner (1897–1962), the American author who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. The Center was established in 1989, following the university’s acquisition of the Louis Daniel Brodsky collection of Faulkner materials. The founder of the CFS is (Robert W. Hamblin ), former professor of English at Southeast. He worked with Brodsky starting in 1979 to produce books, articles, lectures, and exhibits based on the materials in the collection. Dr. Christopher Rieger, assistant professor of English at Southeast, took Dr. Hamblin's place as the center's director in 2013. Dr. Hamblin is now assistant director for the center. ==The Collector== Louis Daniel Brodsky, a native of St. Louis, first studied Faulkner’s novels and stories in 1959 as a student in R. W. B. Lewis's course in American Studies at Yale University. Shortly thereafter, with the help of New Haven bookdealer Henry Wenning, he began to acquire first editions and inscribed copies of Faulkner's books. Over the next 30 years, Brodsky expanded his Faulkner holdings to include manuscripts, letters, movie scripts, legal documents, photographs, and drawings, as well as books. The story of the Brodsky Collection and its acquisition by Southeast Missouri State University is recounted in Nicholas Basbanes' ''A Gentle Madness'', which treats a number of noted contemporary book collectors.〔Nicholas A. Basbanes, ''A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books'' (New York: Henry Holt, 1999)〕 In addition to being an outstanding book collector, Brodsky was a noted Faulkner scholar and poet. He was the author of ''William Faulkner: Life Glimpses'',〔Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990〕 a collection of biographical essays, and he is co-editor, with Robert W. Hamblin, of the five-volume ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection'', plus three additional volumes based upon materials in the collection.〔''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection'', 5 vols. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982-1988); ''Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky: A Descriptive Catalogue'' (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979); ''Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen by William Faulkner'' (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987); and ''Stallion Road: A Screenplay by William Faulkner'' (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989)〕 Brodsky also published more than 70 volumes of poetry, three of which--''Mississippi Vistas'', ''Disappearing in Mississippi Latitudes'', and ''Mistress Mississippi''—deal with Faulknerian themes, settings, and characters. His other poems include a five-volume series, ''Shadow War'', treating the events and aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States; ''You Can't Go Back, Exactly'', which won the 2004 Award for the Best Book of Poetry from the Center for Great Lakes Culture at Michigan State University; and ''Still Wandering in the Wilderness: Poems of the Jewish Diaspora''. Louis Daniel Brodsky died in June 2014. A complete list of his poetry volumes can be found at the (Time Being Books ) website. (Brodsky's personal website ) includes a number of his Faulkner publications. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Center for Faulkner Studies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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