William Faulkner : the Yoknapatawpha country.
Brooks maintains that Faulkner's anchoring his fiction to north Mississippi is of the utmost importance. It is Faulkner's attachment to a concrete region with its rich particularity and its firmly grounded sense of community that gives him a special vantage point from which to view the mod...
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| Other title: | M. J. Bowen William Faulkner Collection. The Yoknapatawpha country. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Rare Books Collection copy 6 gift of Michael John Bowen; |
| Local Note: | Rare Books Collection copy 6 M.J. Bowen William Faulkner Collection\ |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1963.
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Table of Contents:
- Faulkner the provincial
- The plain people: yeoman farmers, sharecroppers, and white trash
- Faulkner as nature poet
- The community and the pariah (Light in August)
- The old order (The unvanquished)
- The waste land: southern exposure (Sartoris)
- Discovery of evil (Sanctuary, and, Requiem for a nun)
- Odyssey of the Bundrens (As I lay dying)
- Faulkner's savage Arcadia: Frenchman's Bend (The hamlet)
- Passion, marriage, and bourgeois respectability (The town)
- Faulkner's Revenger's tragedy (The mansion)
- The story of the McCaslins (Go down, Moses)
- The community in action (Intruder in the dust)
- History and the sense of the tragic (Absalom, Absalom!)
- Man, time, and eternity (The sound and the fury)
- The world of William Faulkner (The reivers)