William Faulkner

An Economy of Complex Words

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal rapidly accelerated the long-term shift from tenant farming to modern agriculture, many African Americans were driven from the land and forced to migrate north. At the same time, white landowners exchanged dependency on black labor for dependency on northern capital. Combining powerful close readings of The Hamlet, Go Down, Moses, and A Fable with an examination of southern economic history from the 1930s to the 1950s, Godden shows how the novels' literary complexities--from their narrative structures down to their smallest verbal emphases--reflect and refract the period's economic complexities. By demonstrating the interrelation of literary forms and economic systems, the book describes, in effect, the poetics of an economy. Original in the way it brings together close reading and historical context, William Faulkner offers innovative interpretations of late Faulkner and makes a unique contribution to the understanding of the relation between literature and history.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-08-05
Mått152 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Serie20/21
Antal sidor280
FörlagPrinceton University Press
ISBN9780691130712
UtmärkelserWinner of British Association for American Studies Book Prize 2007

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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Earthing The Hamlet 11 CHAPTER TWO: Comparative Cows: Reading The Hamlet for Its Residues 42 CHAPTER THREE: Revenants, Remnants, and Counterrevolution in "The Fire and the Hearth" 60 CHAPTER FOUR: "Pantaloon in Black" and "The Old People": Migration, Mourning, and the Exquisite Corpse of African American Labor 87 CHAPTER FIVE: Reading the Ledgers: Textual Variants and Labor Variables (with Noel Polk) 119 CHAPTER SIX: Find the Jew: Modernity, Seriality, and Armaments in A Fable 156 CHAPTER SEVEN: "The Bugger's a Jew": A Fable as Melancholic Allegory 179 Notes 203 Index 235

Winner of the 2007 Book Prize, British Association for American Studies "William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words is an important contribution to Faulkner studies."--Barbara Ladd, Studies in American Fiction "For readers who enjoyed and admired the first volume, this one offers vintage Godden and potentially paradigm-shifting criticism... It is in the close readings that the energies of this book lie and where the reader will find the most satisfaction and the furtherance of Faulkner scholarship."--Taylor Hagood, Journal of American Studies