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On the prejudices, predilections, and firm beliefs of William Faulkner : essays / by Cleanth Brooks.
Van Pelt Library PS3511.A86 Z6384 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994.
- Series:
- Southern literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Political and social views.
- Faulkner, William.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
- Literature and society--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Political and social views.
- Southern States.
- History.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- History.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1987]
- Summary:
- It seems appropriate, if not inevitable, that one of our best critics should be the foremost authority on one of our best novelists. Cleanth Brooks, the author of three seminal studies of William Faulkner, was a serious student of that master craftsman's fiction for more than four decades. In this collection, Brooks considers many of the important characteristics of Faulkner's work. He focuses more specifically than he has in the past on certain questions and in some instances offers rebuttals to what he considers unfair assessments of Faulkner. These essays are vintage Brooks. The prose is, as always, felicitous, the manner modest and winning, the thought pertinent and rigorous. Despite the thematic diversity of the essays, the emphasis is ultimately the same: reading and rereading the novels of William Faulkner is a continuing pleasure and an enduring challenge.
- Contents:
- Faulkner and the Fugitive-Agrarians
- Faulkner's Ultimate Values
- Faulkner and the Community
- Faulkner's Early Attemps at the Short Story
- Faulkner's Two Cities
- Faulkner's "Motherless" Children
- Faulkner's Women: Light in August and The Hamlet
- Gavin Stevens and the Chivalric Tradition
- The British Reception of Faulkner
- Faulkner and Christianity
- Faulkner and the American Dream
- Faulkner and History.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0807113913
- 9780807113912
- 0807128694
- 9780807128695
- OCLC:
- 15415043
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