William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha CountryLSU Press, 1989 M12 1 - 500 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Yeoman Farmers | 10 |
Faulkner as Nature Poet | 29 |
The Community and the Pariah Light in August | 47 |
The Old Order The Unvanquished | 75 |
Southern Exposure Sartoris | 100 |
Discovery of Evil Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun | 116 |
Odyssey of the Bundrens As I Lay Dying | 141 |
Frenchmans Bend | 167 |
The Community in Action Intruder in the Dust | 279 |
History and the Sense of the Tragic | 295 |
Man Time and Eternity The Sound and the Fury | 325 |
The World of William Faulkner The Reivers | 349 |
Notes | 369 |
Genealogies | 447 |
Character Index | 453 |
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