Following Faulkner: the critical response to Yoknapatawpha's architect

"William Faulkner seems to have sprung a full-blown genius from a remote part of the American South. Yet Faulkner spent much of his life striving to emulate and overshadow...both as a writer and as a person...his great-grandfather and namesake, Colonel William Falkner, a dueling, railroad-build...

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1. Verfasser: Hagood, Taylor 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Rochester, New York Camden House 2017
Schriftenreihe:Studies in American literature and culture: literary criticism in perspective
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Zusammenfassung:"William Faulkner seems to have sprung a full-blown genius from a remote part of the American South. Yet Faulkner spent much of his life striving to emulate and overshadow...both as a writer and as a person...his great-grandfather and namesake, Colonel William Falkner, a dueling, railroad-building, soldiering figure who loomed not just as a legend in Faulkner's family and community but also as a literary forebear, a published novelist, travel writer, and poet. Looking back on his career, Faulkner would mention that early on he had ridden his great-grandfather's coattails, but by the mid twentieth century it was clear that it was the great-grandson who was leading the literary world: readers, young writers of fiction, and literary critics were following him as one who had found extraordinary ways to capture and express the most challenging aspects of modern life. Taylor Hagood's book centers on the concept of following to examine how Faulkner's work has been analyzed, elucidated, and promoted by a massive body of scholarly work spanning over seven decades. It narrates the development of Faulkner criticism, taking as its premise the idea that Faulkner forges a fiery path through modernism and into postmodernism that literary critics have been constantly rushing to follow" ...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:153 Seiten
ISBN:9781571135872
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