Jonathan Berliner

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing examines the many physical texts in Faulkner's novels and stories from letters and telegrams to Bibles, billboards, and even the alphabetic shape of airport runways. Current investigations in print culture, book history, and media studies often emphasize the controlling power of technological form; instead, this book demonstrates how media should be understood in the context of its use. Throughout Faulkner's oeuvre, various kinds of writing become central to characters forming a sense of the self as well as bonds of intimacy, while ideologies of race and gender connect to the body through the vehicle of writing. This book combines close reading analysis of Faulkner's fiction with the publication history of his works that together offer a case study about what it means to live in a world permeated by media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009222341
• Artikelnr.: 68954326

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Berliner received his PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago and served as an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. His work has been published in journals, including PMLA, American Literary Realism, and Amerikastudien / American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Not Even Past: Media, History, and Repurposing the Text
Chapter 2. Parchment Bodies: Race and Writing Materials
Chapter 3. Inkwell Eyes: Writing, Gender, and the Body
Chapter 4. Circuits of Media: Airplanes, Newspapers, and the Afterlife of Novels
Chapter 5. On Carpentry: Religion and the Question of Literature
Chapter 6. From Ivory to Foolscap: Writing and Intimacy
Works Cited
Index.