Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture Contributor(s): Hannon, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807143685 ISBN-13: 9780807143681 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 813.52 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.61 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Throughout his career, William Faulkner produced a literary discourse remarkably contiguous with other discourses of American culture, but seldom has his work been explored as a participant in the shifts and ruptures that characterize modern discursive systems. Charles Hannon argues in his brilliant new study that the language of Faulkner's fiction is replete with the voiced conflicts that shaped America and the South from the 1920s to1950. Specifically, Hannon takes five contemporary debates -- in historiography, law, labor, ethnography, and film -- and relates them both to canonical and less-discussed texts of Faulkner. |