Arguably the greatest novelist yet to emerge from the United States, William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, for his narrative reconstructions of life in the US South. Since his death in 1962, scholarly interpretations of Faulkner's work have flourished. This comprehensive Companion reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Written by leading scholars, the text is designed to guide readers through the plethora of critical approaches to Faulkner. The volume is divided into five sections focusing on: studies of the…mehr
Arguably the greatest novelist yet to emerge from the United States, William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, for his narrative reconstructions of life in the US South. Since his death in 1962, scholarly interpretations of Faulkner's work have flourished. This comprehensive Companion reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Written by leading scholars, the text is designed to guide readers through the plethora of critical approaches to Faulkner. The volume is divided into five sections focusing on: studies of the contexts of Faulkner's work; key questions addressed in Faulkner criticism; the genres and forms Faulkner encountered and altered; sample readings of particular works; and responses to Faulkner's writing by publishers, film-makers, writers and others. Each contribution both exemplifies current Faulkner scholarship and critically reflects on previous interpretations.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
New York Times/USA Today bestselling author Melanie Moreland, lives a happy and content life in a quiet area of Ontario with her beloved husband of thirty-plus years and their rescue cat, Amber. Nothing means more to her than her friends and family, and she cherishes every moment spent with them. While seriously addicted to coffee, and highly challenged with all things computer-related and technical, she relishes baking, cooking, and trying new recipes for people to sample. She loves to throw dinner parties, and also enjoys traveling, here and abroad, but finds coming home is always the best part of any trip. Melanie loves stories, especially paired with a good wine, and enjoys skydiving (free falling over a fleck of dust) extreme snowboarding (falling down stairs) and piloting her own helicopter (tripping over her own feet.) She's learned happily ever afters, even bumpy ones, are all in how you tell the story.
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Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Richard C. Moreland PART I Contexts 5 1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7 Richard Godden 2 "We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain 28 Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson 3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46 Anne Goodwyn Jones 4 "C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65 Catherine Gunther Kodat 5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85 Michael Zeitlin 6 Faulkner's Lives 104 Jay Parini PART II Questions 113 7 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115 Owen Robinson 8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133 Barbara Ladd 9 "Why Are You So Black?" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148 John N. Duvall 10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165 Julia Leyda 11 Faulkner's Families 180 Arthur F. Kinney 12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202 Cheryl Lester 13 The State 220 Ted Atkinson 14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels 236 Lothar Hönnighausen 15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination 252 Sean Latham 16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269 Leigh Anne Duck 17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284 Peter Lurie 18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301 Vincent Allan King PART III Genres and Forms 319 19 Faulkner's Genre Experiments 321 Thomas L. McHaney 20 "Make It New": Faulkner and Modernism 342 Philip Weinstein 21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359 Susan V. Donaldson 22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373 Greg Forter 23 William Faulkner's Short Stories 394 Hans H. Skei 24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction 410 Noel Polk 25 Faulkner's Texts 420 Noel Polk PART IV Sample Readings 427 26 "By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429 Donald M. Kartiganer 27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445 John Carlos Rowe 28 "The Cradle of Your Nativity": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 459 Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber PART V After Faulkner 477 29 "He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus": Faulkner's Critical Reception 479 Timothy P. Caron 30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infl uence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines 499 Deborah Cohn 31 Faulkner's Continuance 519 Patrick O'Donnell Index 528
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Richard C. Moreland PART I Contexts 5 1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7 Richard Godden 2 "We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain 28 Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson 3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46 Anne Goodwyn Jones 4 "C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65 Catherine Gunther Kodat 5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85 Michael Zeitlin 6 Faulkner's Lives 104 Jay Parini PART II Questions 113 7 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115 Owen Robinson 8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133 Barbara Ladd 9 "Why Are You So Black?" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148 John N. Duvall 10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165 Julia Leyda 11 Faulkner's Families 180 Arthur F. Kinney 12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202 Cheryl Lester 13 The State 220 Ted Atkinson 14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels 236 Lothar Hönnighausen 15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination 252 Sean Latham 16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269 Leigh Anne Duck 17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284 Peter Lurie 18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301 Vincent Allan King PART III Genres and Forms 319 19 Faulkner's Genre Experiments 321 Thomas L. McHaney 20 "Make It New": Faulkner and Modernism 342 Philip Weinstein 21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359 Susan V. Donaldson 22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373 Greg Forter 23 William Faulkner's Short Stories 394 Hans H. Skei 24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction 410 Noel Polk 25 Faulkner's Texts 420 Noel Polk PART IV Sample Readings 427 26 "By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429 Donald M. Kartiganer 27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445 John Carlos Rowe 28 "The Cradle of Your Nativity": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 459 Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber PART V After Faulkner 477 29 "He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus": Faulkner's Critical Reception 479 Timothy P. Caron 30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infl uence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines 499 Deborah Cohn 31 Faulkner's Continuance 519 Patrick O'Donnell Index 528
