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Reading and interpreting the works of William Faulkner
\"Describes the life and work of writer William Faulkner\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Disturbing Indians
How Faulkner, Welty, Lytle, and Gordon reimagined and
reconstructed the Native American past in their
work.
In this book, Annette Trefzer argues that not only have
Native Americans played an active role in the construction of
the South’s cultural landscape—despite a history of
colonization, dispossession, and removal aimed at rendering
them invisible—but that their under-examined presence in
southern literature also provides a crucial avenue for a
post-regional understanding of the American South. William
Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, and Caroline Gordon
created works about the Spanish conquest of the New World, the
Cherokee frontier during the Revolution, the expansion into the
Mississippi Territory, and the slaveholding societies of the
American southeast. They wrote 100 years after the forceful
removal of Native Americans from the southeast but consistently
returned to the idea of an \"Indian frontier,\" each articulating
a different vision and discourse about Native
Americans—wholesome and pure in the vision of some,
symptomatic of hybridity and universality for others.
Trefzer contends that these writers engage in a double
discourse about the region and nation: fabricating regional
identity by invoking the South’s \"native\" heritage and
pointing to issues of national guilt, colonization, westward
expansion, and imperialism in a period that saw the US sphere
of influence widen dramatically. In both cases, the \"Indian\"
signifies regional and national self-definitions and
contributes to the shaping of cultural, racial, and national
\"others.\" Trefzer employs the idea of archeology in two senses:
quite literally the excavation of artifacts in the South during
the New Deal administration of the 1930s (a surfacing of
material culture to which each writer responded) and archeology
as a method for exploring texts she addresses (literary digs
into the textual strata of America’s literature and its
cultural history).
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A student's guide to William Faulkner
\"An introduction to the work of William Faulkner for high school students, which includes relevant biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Character and Mourning
A literary scholar explores how the greatest British and American authors wrote about the grief and mourning resulting from WWI.
In response to the devastating trauma of World War I, British and American authors wrote about grief. The need to articulate loss inspired moving novels by Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Woolf criticized the role of Britain in the \"war to end all wars,\" and Faulkner recognized in postwar France a devastation of land and people he found familiar from his life in a Mississippi still recovering from the American Civil War. InCharacter and Mourning, Erin Penner shows how these two modernist novelists took on the challenge of rewriting the literature of mourning for a new and difficult era.
Faulkner and Woolf address the massive war losses from the perspective of the noncombatant, thus reimagining modern mourning. By refusing to let war poets dominate the larger cultural portrait of the postwar period, these novelists negotiated a relationship between soldiers and civilians-a relationship that was crucial once the war had ended. Highlighting their sustained attention to elegiac reinvention over the course of their writing careers-fromJacob's Room to The Waves, from The Sound and the Fury to Go Down, Moses-Penner moves beyond biographical and stylistic differences to recognize Faulkner and Woolf's shared role in reshaping elegiac literature in the period following the First World War.
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Faulkner and Mystery
Faulkner and Mysterypresents a wide spectrum of compelling arguments about the role and function of mystery in William Faulkner's fiction. Twelve new essays approach the question of what can be known and what remains a secret in the narratives of the Nobel laureate. Scholars debate whether or not Faulkner's work attempts to solve mysteries or celebrate the enigmas of life and the elusiveness of truth.
Scholars scrutinize Faulkner's use of the contemporary crime and detection genre as well as novels that deepen a plot rather than solve it. Several essays are dedicated to exploring the narrative strategies and ideological functions of Faulkner's take on the detective story, the classic \"whodunit.\" Among Faulkner's novels most interested in the format of detection isIntruder in the Dust, which assumes a central role in this essay collection.
Other contributors explore the thickening mysteries of racial and sexual identity, particularly the enigmatic nature of his female and African American characters. Questions of insight, cognition, and judgment in Faulkner's work are also at the center of essays that explore his storytelling techniques, plot development, and the inscrutability of language itself.
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