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Gorra, Michael Edward.
Subjects
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Characters.
Blacks in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
Southern States -- In literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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Gorra, Michael Edward.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Characters.
Blacks in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
Southern States -- In literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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The
saddest
words
:
William
Faulkner
's
Civil
War
/ Michael Gorra.
by
Gorra, Michael Edward.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020.
Call #:
813.52 G673s
Subjects
Faulkner
,
William
, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Faulkner
,
William
, 1897-1962 -- Characters.
Blacks in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
Southern States -- In literature.
United States -- History --
Civil
War
, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the
war
.
ISBN:
9781631491702 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 433 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-407) and index.
Summary:
"How do we read
William
Faulkner
in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America'
s
most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read
William
Faulkner
in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the
Civil
War
, that central quarrel in our nation'
s
history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,
Faulkner
wrote such iconic novels as Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha County the richest gallery of characters in American fiction, his achievements culminating in the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. But given his works' echo of 'Lost Cause' romanticism, his depiction of black characters and black speech, and his rendering of race relations in a largely unreconstructed South,
Faulkner
demands a sobering reevaluation. Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The
Saddest
Words
recontextualizes
Faulkner
, revealing a
civil
war
within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today."--Publisher.
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