William Faulkner : an economy of complex words / Richard Godden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godden, Richard, 1946-

Series:

20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)

20/21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Economics in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 251 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Richard Godden's "William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words" is a stunning account of Faulkner's late fiction that combines intense close reading and attention to the history of mid-twentieth-century modernization to reaffirm Faulkner's centrality, not just to Southern literature or to modernist aesthetics, but to the mainstream of American history and culture."--Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia

"This book asks us to think again about Faulkner and the relation of language to history. It is provocative but patiently argued, theoretically sophisticated yet marvelously fluent, challenging as well as convincing. It swims against much of the current critical tide but it gets much further into new territory on Faulkner and narrative."--Richard Gray, author of "The Life of William Faulkner

Contents:

Earthing The hamlet

Comparative cows: reading The hamlet for its residues

Revenants, remnants, and counterrevolution in "The fire and the hearth"

"Pantaloons in black" and "The old people": migration, mourning, and the exquisite corpse of African American labor

REading the ledges: textual variants and labor variables (with Noel Polk)

Find the Jew: modernity, seriality, and armanents in A fable

"The bugger's a Jew": A fable as melancholic allegory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691130712

069113071X

OCLC:

122283362