“Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance” - Dr. Glenn Arbery

On February 25, 2026, Dr. Glenn Arbery spoke to Valor Institute retreat participants about Faulkner’s relationship to the wider “Southern Renaissance” in twentieth-century American literature. Despite some general thematic similarities to Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, and other writers of this movement, Faulkner did not share their gilded perception of Southern heritage, turning a much more critical eye to the past.

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