William Faulkner seeing through the South
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 309 p. :) ill., port.
9781444306033, 9780470672402, 1444306030, 0470672404
1190693483
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
Originally published: 2009
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