William Faulkner: A Literary Life

✍ Scribed by David Rampton (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Series: Literary Lives
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Despite all the studies devoted to William Faulkner, he continues to be variously perceived. Focussing on his fiction, this study of Faulkner's multifaceted literary life explores the distinctive blend of continuity and innvoation that characterizes his novels and looks at the extensive and varied reactions they have elicited.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Early Faulkner....Pages 14-35
Major Achievement I....Pages 36-57
Major Achievement II....Pages 58-84
Two Views of History....Pages 85-103
More Experiments with the Novel....Pages 104-128
The Snopes Trilogy....Pages 129-149
Late Faulkner....Pages 150-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-197

✦ Subjects

North American Literature;Twentieth-Century Literature;Fiction

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