Faulkner's reception of Apuleius' the golden ass in the reivers / Vernon L. Provencal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Provencal, Vernon l, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Reivers.

Faulkner, William.

Apuleius. Metamorphoses--Book 11.

Apuleius.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Faulkner's posthumous novel, The Reivers , has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence . Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation for Faulkner's later novels, The Reivers is still perceived as a slightly fictionalized comic memoir romanticizing the early life of the author in the pre-civil rights American South. This volume takes this dismissal of The Reivers to task for failing to appreciate its employment of the Apuleian narrative of life-altering metamorphosis to offer, as his literary farewell, hope for humanity's self-redemption. Vernon L. Provencal studies the reception of The Golden Ass in The Reivers as comic novels of moral katabasis (wilful descent into the lawless underworld) and providential anabasis (societal and spiritual redemption). As the independent basis of the reception study, The Reivers receives its first ever detailed reading, while The Golden Ass is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) prophecy that in the end the comic hero would become the book itself."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword by Tammy-Lynn Provencal

Acknowledgements

Note on Texts and Translations

Note on Narratology

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Ass and the Automobile

Chapter One: William Faulkner and The Reivers

Chapter Two: Apuleius and The Golden Ass

Chapter Three: Reception of The Golden Ass in The Reivers

Conclusion: Re-Reading The Reivers

Works Cited

Endnotes

Indices

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350006010

OCLC:

1157097080

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.