| Description |
xiv, 499 pages : map, genealogical tables. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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 modern world. |
| 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). |
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
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Mississippi -- In literature.
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Yoknapatawpha country.
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