John T. Matthews

Gebundenes Buch

William Faulkner

Seeing Through the South

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

John T. Matthews is Professor of English at Boston University. Author of The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982) and "The Sound and the Fury": Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1991), Matthews has also written numerous articles on Faulkner. He was the 2006 recipient of Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Introductions to Literature
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781405124812
• ISBN-10: 1405124814
• Artikelnr.: 23513948

Rezensionen

"It is largely due to this diversity of approaches and Matthews' ability to accessibly convey his formidable learning that his book achieves its dual aims: introducing Faulkner to first-timers while modifying an established critical tradition for the sake of a larger reading audience . . . seeing Through the South is a bold, many-sided, and at times surprising book-qualities that are not often combined in the typical introductory volume and are bolstered by Matthews' enthusiasm for his subject and his subtle engagement with Faulkner's daunting critical heritage." (Notes and Queries, 1 June 2011)

"Matthews faces the crisis of Faulkner scholarship-with its cardboard Faulkners and its truncated canon-by giving us a more expansive,

more relevant, and, frankly, more interesting Faulkner. His readings of the novels, particularly Sanctuary; If I Forget Thee; Jerusalem; Go Down, Moses; The Sound and the Fury; Absalom! Absalom!; and the Snopes trilogy, are simply indispensable. Beautifully written and obviously the product of long years of scholarship, these readings affirm the "complex mixtures" that make Faulkner one of America's greatest novelist."(Black Hills State University)"John T. Matthews's William Faulkner: Seeing through the South is the rare book that will prove vital and engaging both for readers new to Faulkner's writing and for scholars long devoted to it." (The Journal of American Studies, 2010)"[A] compelling and richly engaging book [that] skilfully opens ways into Faulkner's writing for new readers and reinvigorates for his wider audience a sense of what we might talk about when we talk about Faulkner today.... For all the relaxed manner of Matthews's address--his witty analogies, comfortable idiom, pleasurable clarifications, jokes and almost unforgiveable puns--his book speaks urgently to modern readers." (Review of English Studies, 2009)

"The present excellent book deals with the cohesiveness of Faulkner's work as an evolving project ... Matthews is a master of literary theory without being mastered by it, and he has gifts as a close reader ... Highly recommended." (CHOICE, October 2009)

"John T. Matthews' lucid critical biography examines Faulkner's writerly persona and his rich fiction as developing organically out of precise aesthetic and social preoccupations best illustrated through a variety of methodologies.... Matthews has previously explored modernist, post-structuralist, materialist and Marxist ways of reading Faulkner, and this critical suppleness benefits and supports student readers." (Times Literary Supplement, April 2009)

John T. Matthews's William Faulkner: Seeing through the South is the rare book that will prove vital and engaging both for readers new to Faulkner's writing and for scholars long devoted to it." (The Journal of American Studies, 2010)