{"product_id":"william-faulkner-isbn-9780470672402","title":"William Faulkner","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsidered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and characters, ironically, are more readily associated with the history and sociology of the most backward state in the Union. He experimented endlessly with narrative structure, developing an unorthodox writing style. Yet his main goal was to reveal the truth of \"the human heart in conflict with itself,\" ultimately defining human nature through the lens of his own Southern experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive account of Faulkner's literary career features an exploration of his novels and key short stories, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsalom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsalom!,\u003c\/i\u003e and many more. Drawing on psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, feminist, and post-colonial theory, it offers an imaginative topography of Faulkner's efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernist method.\u003c\/p\u003e  List of illustrations vi  \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eSeeing Through the South:\u003c\/i\u003e Faulkner and the Life Work of Writing 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 An Artist Never Quite at Home: Faulkner's Apprehension of Modern Life 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 That Evening Son Go Down: The Plantation South at Twilight 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Come Up: From Red Necks to Riches 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Planting of Men: The South and New World Colonialism 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 302\u003c\/p\u003e  \"It is largely due to this diversity of approaches and Matthews' ability to accessibly convey his formidable learning that his book achieves its dual aims: introducing Faulkner to first-timers while modifying an established critical tradition for the sake of a larger reading audience . . . seeing Through the South is a bold, many-sided, and at times surprising book-qualities that are not often combined in the typical introductory volume and are bolstered by Matthews' enthusiasm for his subject and his subtle engagement with Faulkner's daunting critical heritage.\" (\u003ci\u003eNotes and Queries\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 June 2011)  \u003cp\u003e\"Matthews faces the crisis of Faulkner scholarship-with its cardboard Faulkners and its truncated canon-by giving us a more expansive, more relevant, and, frankly, more interesting Faulkner. His readings of the novels, particularly \u003ci\u003eSanctuary; If I Forget Thee; Jerusalem; Go Down, Moses; The Sound and the Fury; Absalom! Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e; and the Snopes trilogy, are simply indispensable. Beautifully written and obviously the product of long years of scholarship, these readings affirm the \"complex mixtures\" that make Faulkner one of America's greatest novelist.\"(Black Hills State University)\"John T. Matthews's \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner: Seeing through the South\u003c\/i\u003e is the rare book that will prove vital and engaging both for readers new to Faulkner's writing and for scholars long devoted to it.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010)\"[A] compelling and richly engaging book [that] skilfully opens ways into Faulkner's writing for new readers and reinvigorates for his wider audience a sense of what we might talk about when we talk about Faulkner today.... For all the relaxed manner of Matthews's address—his witty analogies, comfortable idiom, pleasurable clarifications, jokes and almost unforgiveable puns—his book speaks urgently to modern readers.\" (\u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The present excellent book deals with the cohesiveness of Faulkner’s work as an evolving project … Matthews is a master of literary theory without being mastered by it, and he has gifts as a close reader ... Highly recommended.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"John T. Matthews' lucid critical biography examines Faulkner's writerly persona and his rich fiction as developing organically out of precise aesthetic and social preoccupations best illustrated through a variety of methodologies.... Matthews has previously explored modernist, post-structuralist, materialist and Marxist ways of reading Faulkner, and this critical suppleness benefits and supports student readers.\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn T. Matthews's \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner: Seeing through the South\u003c\/i\u003e is the rare book that will prove vital and engaging both for readers new to Faulkner's writing and for scholars long devoted to it.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn T. Matthews\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Boston University. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Play of Faulkner’s Language\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003e“The Sound and the Fury”: Faulkner and the Lost Cause\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), Matthews has also written numerous articles on Faulkner. He was the 2006 recipient of Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsidered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and characters, ironically, are more readily associated with the history and sociology of the most backward state in the Union. He experimented endlessly with narrative structure, developing an unorthodox writing style. Yet his main goal was to reveal the truth of \"the human heart in conflict with itself,\" ultimately defining human nature through the lens of his own Southern experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive account of Faulkner's literary career features an exploration of his novels and key short stories, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsalom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsalom!,\u003c\/i\u003e and many more. Drawing on psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, feminist, and post-colonial theory, it offers an imaginative topography of Faulkner's efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernist method.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990493446373,"sku":"NP9780470672402","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470672402.jpg?v=1761788048","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/william-faulkner-isbn-9780470672402","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}