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William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country

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Availability:In StockContributor:Cleanth BrooksPublish date:1989-12-01Pages:500
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807116012ISBN-10:807116017UPC:9780807116012Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC9F6DMW0V

Hailed by critics and scholars as the most valuable study of Faulkner's fiction, Cleanth Brooks's William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country explores the Mississippi writer's fictional county and the commanding role it played in so much of his work. Brooks shows that Faulkner's strong attachment to his region, with its rich particularity and deep sense of community, gave him a special vantage point from which to view the modern world.Books's consideration of such novels as Light in August, The Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying, and Intruder in the Dust shows the ways in which Faulkner used Yoknapatawpha County to examine the characteristic themes of the twentieth century. Contending that a complete understanding of Faulkner's writing cannot be had without a thorough grasp of fictional detail, Brooks gives careful attention to "what happens: In the Yoknapatawpha novels. He also includes useful genealogies of Faulkner's fictional clans and a character index.

Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807116012ISBN-10:807116017UPC:9780807116012Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC9F6DMW0V

Cleanth Brooks(1906--1994) was born in Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes scholar. He began his teaching career at Louisiana State University in 1932. To many minds, Brooks is the archetypal New Critic, the man whose catch phrases, critical studies, and college textbooks epitomized New Critical ideas, practice, and pedagogy.


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