New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Matthews, John T.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways of imagining sexual identity and behavior, the South's history as a plantation economy and society, and the persistent effects of traumatic cultural and personal experience. This new Companion provides an introduction to the fresh ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316288436
• Artikelnr.: 42619173

Inhaltsangabe

1. New media ecology Julian Murphet; 2. History's dark markings: Faulkner
and film's racial representation Peter Lurie; 3. 'What moves at the
margin': William Faulkner and race Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman; 4. Faulkner and
biopolitics Patricia E. Chu; 5. As I Lay Dying and the modern aesthetics of
ecological crisis Susan Scott Parrish; 6. Faulkner and trauma: on
Sanctuary's originality Greg Forter; 7. Queer Faulkner: whores, queers, and
the transgressive south Jaime Harker; 8. Faulkner and southern studies
Melanie Benson Taylor; 9. The Faulkner factor: influence and
intertextuality in south fiction since 1965 Martyn Bone; 10. They endured:
the Faulknerian novel and post-45 American fiction Benjamin Widiss; 11. A
new region of the world: Faulkner, Glissant, and the Caribbean Hugues
Azérad; 12. The Faulknerian anthropocene: scales of time and history in The
Wild Palms and Go Down, Moses Ramón Saldívar and Sylvan Goldberg; 13.
Reading Faulkner in and beyond postcolonial studies: 'There is nowhere for
us to go now but east' Randy Boyagoda.