Hailed by critics and scholars as the most valuable study of Faulkner's fiction, Cleanth Brooks's William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country explores the Mississippi writer's fictional county and the commanding role it played in so much of his work. Brooks shows that Faulkner's strong attachment to his region, with its rich particularity and deep sense of community, gave him a special vantage point from which to view the modern world. Brooks's consideration of such novels as Light in August, The Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying, and Intruder in the Dust shows the ways in which Faulkner used Yoknapatawpha County to examine the characteristic themes of the twentieth century. Contending that a complete understanding of Faulkner's writing cannot be had without a thorough grasp of fictional detail, Brooks gives careful attention to "what happens: In the Yoknapatawpha novels. He also includes useful genealogies of Faulkner's fictional clans and a character index.
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If you are engaged by Faulkner's works and seek the insights of a guide through Billy's Yoknapatawpha country, look no further. Through the decades this is my most trusted Faulkner companion. While I am not a scholar, I have been reading and rereading Billy's works and more than any other author (I've been reading for 50 years) I feel an affinity for his books, to the point I have subscribed to email lists populated by Faulkner scholars.
So, while many scholars have approached Billy's works, none (in my humble estimation) surpass Cleanth's insights. Dedicated to Robert Penn Warren, it contains 13 essays devoted to Faulkner's major works, and three offerings on qualities of Faulkner's works. The writing is clear and accessible, not at all cluttered with the multi-syllabic gibberish that characterizes so much scholarship.
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MOST READERS associate William Faulkner with the South quite as automatically as they associate Thomas Hardy with Wessex, Robert Frost with northern New England, and William Butler Yeats with Ireland, and perhaps more naturally than they associate Dylan Thomas with Wales. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
octoroon mistress, dramatic sympathy, yeoman stock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Rosa, Gavin Stevens, Joe Christmas, Miss Reba, Flem Snopes, Sam Fathers, The Mansion, The Reivers, The Unvanquished, Horace Benbow, Dewey Dell, Frenchman's Bend, Mink Snopes, Charles Bon, New York, Old Ben, Charles Mallison, Lay Dying, Uncle Parsham, Thomas Sutpen, Boon Hogganbeck, Byron Bunch, Civil War, Colonel Sartoris, Sutpen's Hundred New!
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MOST READERS associate William Faulkner with the South quite as automatically as they associate Thomas Hardy with Wessex, Robert Frost with northern New England, and William Butler Yeats with Ireland, and perhaps more naturally than they associate Dylan Thomas with Wales. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
octoroon mistress, dramatic sympathy, yeoman stock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Rosa, Gavin Stevens, Joe Christmas, Miss Reba, Flem Snopes, Sam Fathers, The Mansion, The Reivers, The Unvanquished, Horace Benbow, Dewey Dell, Frenchman's Bend, Mink Snopes, Charles Bon, New York, Old Ben, Charles Mallison, Lay Dying, Uncle Parsham, Thomas Sutpen, Boon Hogganbeck, Byron Bunch, Civil War, Colonel Sartoris, Sutpen's Hundred New!
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- Light in August (Modern Library) by William Faulkner on 28 pages
- Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner on 28 pages
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 25 pages
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) by William Faulkner on 25 pages
- Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 21 pages
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- Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region (American Literature) by Mark Royden Winchell on 7 pages
- William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Daniel Joseph Singal on 7 pages
- New Essays on Light in August (The American Novel) by Michael Millgate on 7 pages
- Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Owen Robinson on 6 pages
- The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) by Richard Gray on 5 pages
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