William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! : a casebook / edited by Fred Hobson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hobson, Fred, 1943-

Series:

Casebooks in criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Absalom, Absalom!.

Faulkner, William.

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, American.

Plantation life in literature.

Families in literature.

Race in literature.

Mississippi--In literature.

Mississippi.

Physical Description:

x, 301 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Absalom, Absalom!

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically. Here are critical responses by Cleanth Brooks, John Irwin, Thadious Davis, and Eric Sundquist, as well as four essays published in the last decade. The casebook concludes with Faulkner's own remarks on the novel, delivered in a discussion with students at the University of Virginia. What emerges from all the selections is a rich and suggestive treatment of a work which Faulkner himself called "the best novel yet written by an American" and a less biased critic has called "the greatest American novel of the century... joining Moby-Dick and Huckleberry Finn at the pinnacle of American fiction."

Contents:

History and the sense of the tragic / Cleanth Brooks

Repetition and revenge / John Irwin

The signifying abstraction : reading "the Negro" in Absalom, Absalom! / Thadious Davis

Absalom, Absalom! and the house divided / Eric Sundquist

The silencing of Rosa Coldfield / Minrose Gwin

Sutpen's design / Dirk Kuyk, Jr.

"The direction of the howling" : nationalism and the color line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd

Absalom, Absalom!, Haiti and labor history : reading unreadable revolution / Richard Godden

Remarks on Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301).

ISBN:

0195154770

0195154789

OCLC:

51216074