Robinson Creating Yoknapatawpha

Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-51588-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Major Literary Authors

Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the product of these mainly mental processes of construction at all levels, and it is in the similar and even analogous situations that exist between readers and writers of and in the fiction that the dynamic of Faulkner’s work is most keenly discovered. The book discusses novels from throughout Faulkner’s career, and uses elements of Bakhtinian and reader-response theory, among others, to explore its subject, eschewing the limited focus both of strictly formal and more content-oriented approaches, and demonstrating the need for readers and writers to work together, whether harmoniously or otherwise. By examining the fictive nature of Yoknapatawpha, and the requirement for everybody to participate fully in its creation, we can establish useful bases for investigations into the ‘real world’ issues with which Faulkner is so concerned.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Owen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Faulkner and the Reader

- "You Never Smelled a Frightened Horse, Did You?": The Sound and the Fury

- "To Look Upon Evil": The Conspiring Reader of Sanctuary

Part Two: Writers in Yoknaptawpha

- "Doing Things Bigger Than He Was": John Sartoris

- "That Florid, Swaggering Gesture": Thomas Sutpen

- Monuments and Footprints: The Mythology of Flem Snopes

Part Three: Readers in Yoknapatawpha

- Witnesses to The Extinction: Reading Sartoris

- "Perhaps (I like to think this)": Reading Absalom, Absalom! and the Sutpen Text

- Interested Parties and Theorems to Prove: Snopeswatching

Part Four: Creating Yoknapatawpha

- "But why? But why?": Ike McCaslin, and the Reading and Writing of Books in the Midst of Desolation

- "Liable to Be Anything": Joe Christmas, Yoknapatawphan

- Anyone Watching Us Can See: The Democracy of Perspective in As I Lay Dying

- The Loom and the Rug: The Making of a World

Notes

Bibliography

Index