The ink of melancholy : Faulkner's novels from The sound and the fury to Light in August / André Bleikasten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bleikasten, André, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Melancholy in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 400 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, André Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves--on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps--while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work."--Publisher's description.

"Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, Andr�e Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves--on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps--while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: Masks and mirrors

The struggle with the angel. The quest for Eurydice

The agony of dispossession

The young man, desire, and death

Of time and the unreal

The poison of resentment

An Easter without Resurrection?

Requiem for a mother. A "Tour de Force"

A dying life, a living death

Turns of madness

The real and its representations

The blackness of darkness. "The most horrific tale"

Terror and transgression

The madness of bodies

The internal nursery

Versions of the sun. In praise of Helen

The cracked urns

The perils of purity

The fathers

Circles

Epilogue: Under the sign of Saturn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253022998

0253022991

OCLC:

933437843

Publisher Number:

99983685317