| Description |
x, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Physical Medium |
8vo. rdabf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-269) and index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Part I. Persistent patterns of rhetoric and perception. Motion and immobility -- Sound and silence -- Quiescence and turbulence -- Tension -- Part II. The polar imagination. The attraction of extremes -- Conceptual antithesis -- Character antithesis -- Stylistic antithesis -- The space between -- Part III. The quest for failure. Some insoluble suspensions -- The major fiction. The sound and the fury ; As I lay dying ; Light in August ; Absalom, Absalom! ; The hamlet; Go down, Moses; The town ; The wild palms ; Requiem for a nun ; Sanctuary ; Pylon ; Intruder in the dust ; A fable. |
| Summary |
Motion and immobility -- Sound and silence -- Quiescence and turbulence -- Tension -- The attraction of extremes -- Conceptual antithesis -- Character antithesis -- Stylistic antithesis -- The space between -- Some insoluble suspensions -- The sound and the fury -- As I lay dying -- Light in August -- Absalom, Absalom! -- The hamlet; Go down, Moses; The town -- The wild palms -- Requiem for a nun -- Sanctuary -- Pylon -- Intruder in the dust -- A fable -- Conclusions -- Works cited. |
| Subject |
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. (OCoLC)fst00029774
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Novelists, American. (OCoLC)fst01039688
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Slatoff, Walter J. (Walter Jacob), 1922- Quest for failure. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press [1960] (OCoLC)557833065 |
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