1st Edition
Creating Yoknapatawpha Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction
By Owen Robinson
Copyright 2006
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Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the product of these mainly mental processes of construction at all levels, and it is in the similar and even... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Faulkner and the Reader; Chapter 1 (you never smelled a frightened horse, did you?): The Sound and the Fury; Chapter 2 To Look Upon Evil: The Conspiring Reader of Sanctuary; Part 2 Writers in Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 3 Doing Things Bigger Than He Was: John Sartoris; Chapter 4 That Florid, Swaggering Gesture: Thomas Sutpen; Chapter 5 Monuments and Footprints: The Mythology of Flem Snopes; Part 3 Readers in Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 6 Witnesses to the Extinction: Reading the Sartoris Text; Chapter 7 Perhaps (I Like to Think This): Reading Absalom, Absalom! and the Sutpen Text; Chapter 8 Interested Part ies and Theorems to Prove: Snopeswatching; Part 4 Creating Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 9 But why? But why?: Ike McCaslin, and the Reading and Writing of Books in the Midst of Desolation; Chapter 10 Liable to Be Anything: Joe Christmas, Yoknapatawphan; Chapter 11 Anyone Watching Us Can See: The Democracy of Perspective in As I Lay Dying; Chapter 12 The Loom and the Rug: The Making of a World;
Biography
Owen Robinson
