Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 236 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139000413
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's oeuvre. Bringing into focus the broader cultural context which lent its resonance to his work, the collection will be particularly useful for the student seeking critical introduction to Faulkner, while also serving the dedicated scholar interested in recent trends in Faulkner criticism. Together these essays map Faulkner's contemporary meaning by exploring his relation to modernism and postmodernism, to twentieth-century mass culture, to European and Latin American fiction, to issues of gender difference, and, above all, to the conflicted scene of United States race relations. Neither assuming in advance his literary 'greatness' nor insisting that his canonical status be revoked, they instead pose the question: what is at stake today in reading Faulkner?
Content:
Faulkner and modernism / Richard C. Moreland -- Faulkner and postmodernism / Patrick O'Donnell -- Faulkner and the culture industry / John Matthews -- Faulkner from a European perspective / André Bleikasten -- Looking for a master plan : Faulkner, Paredes, and the colonial and postcolonial subject / Ramón Saldívar -- Racial awareness and arrested development : The sound and the fury and the great migration (1915-1928) / Cheryl Lester -- Race in Light in August : wordsymbols and obverse reflections / Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- Absalom, Absalom! : (un) making the father / Carolyn Porter -- The stakes of reading Faulkner : discerning reading / Warwick Wadlington
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521420631
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521421676
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521420631
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521420636
