William Faulkner in context

"William Faulkner in Context explores the environment that conditioned Faulkner's creative work. This book provides a broad and authoritative framework that will help readers to better understand this widely read yet challenging writer. Each essay offers a critical assessment of Faulkner&#...

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Other Authors: Matthews, John T.,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Physical Description: xv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • 'Born there': Faulkner, Oxford, and Lafayette County /
  • Philip Weinstein
  • Primeval, goddam, and beyond: on Mississippi /
  • Robert Jackson
  • A gulf society /
  • Matthew Pratt Guterl
  • William Faulkner's Caribbean poetics /
  • Valerie Loichot
  • What was Africa to Faulkner? /
  • Keith Cartwright
  • Cosmopolitan culture: from New Orleans to Paris /
  • Taylor Hagood
  • Hollywood challenge /
  • James D. Bloom
  • Topologies of discourse in Faulkner /
  • Charles Hannon
  • 'It' and 'ole' in 1930: the structural economy of Faulkner's complex words /
  • Richard Godden
  • Modern sexuality /
  • Kristin Fujie
  • Cage of gender /
  • John T. Matthews
  • World of Jim Crow /
  • Leigh Anne Duck
  • South to the world: William Faulkner and the American century /
  • Harilaos Stecopoulos
  • Unsteady state: Faulkner and the Cold War /
  • Catherine Gunther Kodat
  • 'Truth so mazed': Faulkner and US plantation fiction /
  • Peter Schmidt
  • Faulkner and the modernist novel /
  • Jacques Pothier
  • Faulkner goes to Hollywood /
  • Sarah Gleeson-White
  • Reading William Faulkner after the civil rights era /
  • Barbara Ladd
  • Writing past trauma: Faulkner and the Gothic /
  • Lisa Hinrichsen
  • Faulkner and the paperback trade /
  • David M. Earle
  • Writing after Faulkner: Faulkner and contemporary US fiction /
  • Jay Watson
  • Reading Faulkner: empathy, distance, and Tehran /
  • Michael Kreyling
  • Faulkner and Latin America: Latin America in Faulkner /
  • Emron Esplin
  • William Faulkner and Japan /
  • Takako Tanaka
  • Faulkner as/and the postcolonial writer /
  • Hosam Aboul-Ela
  • Translating Faulkner: can a translator be androgynous? /
  • Ikuko Fujihira.