William Faulkner;, the Yoknapatawpha country
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- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
- Mississippi
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
- Faulkner, William + Criticism and interpretation
- Southern States -- In literature
- Mississippi -- In literature
- Literature
- Mississippi + In literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
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William Faulkner;, the Yoknapatawpha country
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
genealogical tablesmaps
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
William Faulkner;
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
284599
Sub title
the Yoknapatawpha country
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
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)
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