“Absalom, Absalom! in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha” - Dr. Glenn Arbery

On February 26, 2026, Dr. Glenn Arbery introduced to Valor Institute retreat participants to wide vistas and hidden corners of Yoknapatawpha County, the setting of many Faulkner novels. Growing ever more intricate with each novel, Yoknapatwpha constitutes a masterwork of literary imagination.

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