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Faulkner and the Native Keystone, 2014
Reading (Beyond) the American South
Author: Oklopcic Biljana
Language: EnglishKeywords
Bakhtinian reading of Faulkner; Family novels; Faulkner and Race; Faulkner and gender; Faulkner and his contemporaries; Faulkner and psychoanalysis; Faulkner and sexuality; Literature of the American South; Modernism in literature; Myths and stereotypes; Southern Gothic; Southern Renaissance; Southern male and female stereotypes; William Faulkner; Women characters in Faulkner; Women's Education in the American South; Yoknapatawpha County; literary diction
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Add to cart the print on demand of Oklopcic BiljanaPublication date: 09-2016
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Add to cart the book of Oklopcic BiljanaPublication date: 07-2014
113 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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The last fifty years have witnessed a never-ending flow of criticism of William Faulkner and his fiction. While this book touches on the prevailing critical theory, it concentrates on a number of fresh observations on themes and motifs that place William Faulkner?s fiction in general, regional, global and universal contexts of American and Western literature. Paying special attention to themes and motifs of racism, sexism, women's education, myths and stereotypes ? to mention just a few ? the book analyzes Faulkner?s ability to write and to be read within and beyond his ?native keystone? ? his South. Coming from a non US-Americanist perspective, this contribution to the scholarly literature on William Faulkner discusses his best-known novels, contends that regionalism, internationalism and universalism are the context of his fiction and argues for feminist, post-colonial, and psychoanalytical approaches to it. The book is intended for scholars in the field of American literature, American Studies and Southern Studies as it covers the South?s complex history, its peculiar cultural institutions and the daunting body of international critical studies that has flourished around the novels during the last five decades. Graduate students will also find this book useful as it analyzes and interprets the novels and short stories of one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century in an easily understandable way, offering new and fresh readings on (1) race and gender stereotypes present in American and European culture and literature, (2) conventions of family/genealogical fiction/drama and (3) universal life situations and feelings.
Preface.- General Faulkner: The Roots of Yoknapatawpha.- Regional Faulkner: Faulkner and the South.- Global Faulkner: Faulkner and His European Contemporaries.- Universal Faulkner: Faulkner and Everyperson.- Epilogue.- Literature.- Index.
Analyzes and interprets the novels and short stories of one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century in an easy-to-follow way
Offers new and fresh readings of race and gender stereotypes present in American and European culture and literature
Explores universal life situations and feelings in Faulkner’s fiction
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras