William Faulkner: His Life and Work

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JHU Press, 16.10.1997 - 325 Seiten

A widely acclaimed biography presents a Faulkner who is powerful, vulnerable, real—every bit as fascinating as the characters he created.

In this highly acclaimed biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, published and unpublished letters, as well as his poems, stories, and novels, to illuminate the close relationship between the flawed life and the artistic achievement of one of twentieth-century America's most complex literary figures. In the process, he reveals a Faulkner who is powerful, vulnerable, real—every bit as fascinating as the characters he created. Anyone who has ever tarried in Yoknapatawpha County will find this a sensitive and readable account of the novelist's struggles in art and life. In his new preface, Minter locates his biography in relation to the changes in the literary critical landscape during the 1980s and discusses its departures from New Critical tenets about the relationship between authors' lives and their works.

 

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THREE
37
The Great Discovery 1927
70
The Selfs Own Lamp 19281929
91
SEVEN
134
Two Gestures of Gianthood 19361942
165
The Dark Years and Beyond 19421950
192
The Faces of Fame 19511962
220
Genealogy
253
Notes
267
Index
309
Urheberrecht

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

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Autoren-Profil (1997)

David Minter is Libbie Shern Moody Professor of English at Rice University. He is the author of The Interpreted Design as a Structural Principle in American Prose and A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner.

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TitelWilliam Faulkner: His Life and Work
Autor/inDavid Minter
AusgabeNeuauflage
VerlagJHU Press, 1997
ISBN0801857473, 9780801857478
Länge325 Seiten
  
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