• Anglický jazyk

Faulkner on the Color Line

Autor: Theresa M. Towner

A study of William Faulkner's final phase as a period in which he faced up to America's rigid protocols of racial ideologypThis study argues that Faulkner's writings about racial matters interrogated rather than validated his racial beliefs and that, in... Viac o knihe

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A study of William Faulkner's final phase as a period in which he faced up to America's rigid protocols of racial ideologypThis study argues that Faulkner's writings about racial matters interrogated rather than validated his racial beliefs and that, in the process of questioning his own ideology, his fictional forms extended his reach as an artist.pAfter winning the Nobel Prize in 1950, Faulkner wrote what critics term "his later novels." These have been almost uniformly dismissed, with the prevailing view being that as he became a more public figure, his fiction became a platform rather than a canvas.pWithin this context iFaulkner on the Color Line/i redeems the novels in the final phase of his career by interpreting them as Faulkner's way of addressing the problem of race in America. They are seen as a series of formal experiments Faulkner deliberately attempted as he examined the various cultural functions of narrative, most particularly those narratives that enforce Amer

  • Vydavateľstvo: University Press of Mississippi
  • Rok vydania: 2000
  • Formát: Paperback
  • Rozmer: 216 x 140 mm
  • Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
  • ISBN: 9781934110355

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