This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies.Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize–winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist.Comprises original essays written by leading scholars.Guides readers through the plethora of critical approaches to Faulkner over the past few decades.Exemplifies current Faulkner scholarship, as well as critically reflecting on previous interpretations. INDICE: Notes on Contributors viii.Acknowledgments xiv.Introduction 1Richard C. Moreland.PART I Contexts 5.1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7Richard Godden.2 We?re Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves: Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner?s Literary Terrain 28Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson.3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46Anne Goodwyn Jones.4 C?est Vraiment Dégueulasse: Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65Catherine Gunther Kodat.5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85Michael Zeitlin.6 Faulkner?s Lives 104Jay Parini.PART II Questions 113.7 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115Owen Robinson.8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133Barbara Ladd.9 Why Are You So Black? Faulkner?s Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148John N. Duvall.10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165Julia Leyda.11 Faulkner?s Families 180Arthur F. Kinney.12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202Cheryl Lester.13 The State 220Ted Atkinson.14 Violence in Faulkner?s Major Novels 236Lothar Hönnighausen.15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner?s Post–Colonial Imagination 252Sean Latham.16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269Leigh Anne Duck.17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284Peter Lurie.18 Faulkner?s Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301Vincent Allan King.PART III Genres and Forms 319.19 Faulkner?s Genre Experiments 321Thomas L. McHaney.20 Make It New: Faulkner and Modernism 342Philip Weinstein.21 Faulkner?s Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359Susan V. Donaldson.22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373Greg Forter.23 William Faulkner?s Short Stories 394Hans H. Skei.24 Faulkner?s Non–Fiction 410Noel Polk.25 Faulkner?s Texts 420Noel Polk.PART IV Sample Readings 427.26 By It I Would Stand or Fall: Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429Donald M. Kartiganer.27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445John Carlos Rowe.28 The Cradle of Your Nativity: Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner?s Snopes Trilogy 459Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber.PART V After Faulkner 477.29 He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus: Faulkner?s Critical Reception 479Timothy P. Caron.30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infl uence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines 499Deborah Cohn.31 Faulkner?s Continuance 519Patrick O?Donnell.Index 528
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- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
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- Fecha Publicación: 10/04/2015
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