William Faulkner: seeing through the south

William Faulkner: seeing through the south

Matthews, John T.

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Considered by many to be the most influential U.S. novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. This comprehensive account of Faulkner's literary career features an exploration of his novels and key short stories, including TheSound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and many more. Drawingon psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, feminist, and post-colonial theory, itoffers an imaginative topography of Faulkner's efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernistmethod. INDICE: Preface.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Seeing Through the South: Faulkner and the Life Work of Writing.1. An Artist Never Quite at Home: Faulkners Apprehension of Modern Life.2. That Evening Son Go Down: The Plantation South at Twilight.3. Come Up: From Red Necks to Riches.4. The Planting of Men: TheSouth and New World Colonialism.5. Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha.Notes.Index

  • ISBN: 978-1-4051-2481-2
  • Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 320
  • Fecha Publicación: 02/01/2009
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés