A companion to William Faulkner / edited by Richard Moreland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moreland, Richard C.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

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

Faulkner, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (554 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A COMPANION TO WILLIAM FAULKNER; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Contexts; 1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor; 2 ""We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves"": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain; 3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers; 4 ""C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse"": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; 5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism; 6 Faulkner's Lives

PART II Questions7 Reflections on Language and Narrative; 8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner; 9 ""Why Are You So Black?"" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion; 10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility; 11 Faulkner's Families; 12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner; 13 The State; 14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels; 15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination; 16 Religion: Desire and Ideology; 17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August

18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great DividePART III Genres and Forms; 19 Faulkner's Genre Experiments; 20 ""Make It New"": Faulkner and Modernism; 21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime; 22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction; 23 William Faulkner's Short Stories; 24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction; 25 Faulkner's Texts; PART IV Sample Readings; 26 ""By It I Would Stand or Fall"": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying; 27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!

28 ""The Cradle of Your Nativity"": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes TrilogyPART V After Faulkner; 29 ""He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus"": Faulkner's Critical Reception; 30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Influence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines; 31 Faulkner's Continuance; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610748006

9781119117933

1119117933

9781782685074

1782685073

9781280748004

1280748001

9780470984895

0470984899

9781405177429

140517742X

9780470996881

0470996889

9781405172059

1405172053

OCLC:

213389720