|  | Matthews, John T.
William Faulkner
Seeing Through the South
Blackwell Introductions to Literature
 1. Edition December 2011
29.90 Euro
2011. 320 Pages, Softcover
ISBN 978-0-470-67240-2 - John Wiley & Sons
|
Sample Chapter
| Buy now
|
| Short description
This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner's literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernist method. Drawing on various critical approaches, it provides a coherent interpretation of the author's career, emphasizing Faulkner's receptivity to change, not just his critical resistance to it. Now available in paperback, William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South places Faulkner's art in context while concentrating on textual detail, technique, and thematic preoccupations across his career.
From the contents
List of illustrations vi
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Seeing Through the South: Faulkner and the Life Work of Writing 1
1 An Artist Never Quite at Home: Faulkner's Apprehension of Modern Life 19
2 That Evening Son Go Down: The Plantation South at Twilight 77
3 Come Up: From Red Necks to Riches 124
4 The Planting of Men: The South and New World Colonialism 172
5 Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha 225
Notes 288
Bibliography 296
Index 302
|
|
|
|
