William Faulkner in context / edited by John T. Matthews, Boston University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matthews, John T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Faulkner in Context explores the environment that conditioned Faulkner's creative work. This book provides a broad and authoritative framework that will help readers to better understand this widely read yet challenging writer. Each essay offers a critical assessment of Faulkner's work as it relates to such topics as genre, reception, and the significance of place. Although Faulkner dwelt in his native Mississippi throughout his life, his visits to cities like New Orleans, Paris, and Los Angeles profoundly shaped his early career. Inextricable from the dramatic upheavals of the twentieth century, Faulkner's writing was deeply affected by the Great War, the Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement. In this volume, a host of renowned scholars shed light on this enigmatic writer and render him accessible to students and researchers alike.

Contents:

'Born there': Faulkner, Oxford, and Lafayette County / Philip Weinstein

Primeval, Goddam, and beyond: on Mississippi / Robert Jackson

A gulf society / Matthew Pratt Guterl

William Faulkner's Caribbean poetics / Valérie Loichot

What was Africa to Faulkner? / Keith Cartwright

Cosmopolitan culture: from New Orleans to Paris / Taylor Hagood

The Hollywood challenge / James D. Bloom

Topologies of discourse in Faulkner / Charles Hannon

'It' and 'ole' in 1930: the structural economy of Faulkner's complex words / Richard Godden

Modern sexuality / Kristin Fujie

The cage of gender / John T. Matthews

The world of Jim Crow / Leigh Anne Duck

South to the world: William Faulkner and the American century / Harilaos Stecopoulos

Unsteady state: Faulkner and the Cold War / Catherine Gunther Kodat

'Truth so mazed': Faulkner and US plantation fiction / Peter Schmidt

Faulkner and the modernist novel / Jacques Pothier

Faulkner goes to Hollywood / Sarah Gleeson-White

Reading William Faulkner after the civil rights era / Barbara Ladd

Writing past trauma: Faulkner and the Gothic / Lisa Hinrichsen

Faulkner and the paperback trade / David M. Earle

Writing after Faulkner: Faulkner and contemporary US fiction / Jay Watson

Reading Faulkner: empathy, distance, and Tehran / Michael Kreyling

Faulkner and Latin America: Latin America in Faulkner / Emron Esplin

William Faulkner and Japan / Takako Tanaka

Faulkner as/and the postcolonial writer / Hosam Aboul-Ela

Translating Faulkner: can a translator be androgynous? / Ikuko Fujihira.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-316-25856-4

1-316-25846-7

1-316-25866-1

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1-316-25868-8

1-316-25870-X

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