Faulkner’s Marginal Couple

Faulkner’s Marginal Couple
Author: John N. Duvall
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 029277219X

Is William Faulkner’s fiction built on a fundamental dichotomy of outcast individual versus the healthy agrarian community? The New Critics of the 1930s advanced this view, and it has shaped much Faulkner criticism. However, in Faulkner’s Marginal Couple, John Duvall posits the existence of another possibility, alternative communities formed by “deviant” couples. These couples, who violate “normal” gender roles and behaviors, challenge the either/or view of Faulkner’s world. The study treats in detail the novels Light in August, The Wild Palms, Sanctuary, Pylon, and Absalom, Absalom!, as well as several of Faulkner’s short stories. In discussing each work, Duvall challenges the traditional view that Faulkner created active men who follow a code of honor and passive women who are close to nature. Instead, he charts the many instances of men who are nurturing and passive and women who are strong and sexually active. These alternative couples undermine a common view of Faulkner as an upholder of Southern patriarchal values, thus countering the argument that Faulkner’s fiction is essentially misogynist. This new approach, drawing on semiotics, feminism, and Marxism, makes Faulkner more accessible to readers interested in ideological analysis. It also stresses the intertextual connections between Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha and non-Yoknapatawpha fiction. Perhaps most importantly, it uncovers what the New Criticism concealed, namely, that Faulkner’s fiction traces the full androgynous spectrum of the human condition.

Faulkner’s Marginal Couple

Faulkner’s Marginal Couple
Author: John N. Duvall
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0292751141

Drawing on semiotics, feminism, and Marxism, John Duvall challenges traditional views that Faulkner's fiction is essentially misogynist. Charting the many pairings of nurturing, passive males and strong, sexually active females in Faulkner's work, he undermines the view of Faulkner as an upholder of Southern patriarchal values and reveals instead how Faulkner's fiction traces the full androgynous spectrum of the human condition.

Faulkner and gender

Faulkner and gender
Author: Donald M. Kartiganer
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1996
Genre: Gender identity in literature
ISBN: 9781617030031

William Faulkner

William Faulkner
Author: John E. Bassett
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2009-05-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810867419

"William Faulkner (1897-1962) produced such enduring novels as The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and As I Lay Dying, as well as many short stories. His works continue to be a source of interest to scholars and students of literature, and the immense amount of criticism about the Nobel-prize winner continues to grow. Bassett provides an annotated listing of commentary in English on William Faulkner since the late 1980s. This volume dedicates its sections to book-length studies of Faulkner, commentaries on individual novels and short works, criticism covering multiple works, biographical and bibliographical sources, and other materials such as book reviews, doctoral dissertations, and brief commentaries. This bibliography provides a list of all significant recent commentary on Faulkner, and the annotations direct readers to those materials of most interest to them." -- From back of book.

Faulkner and Postmodernism

Faulkner and Postmodernism
Author: John N. Duvall
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781604732535

Where William Faulkner's fiction stands in relation to that of Ellison, Pynchon, Nabokov, and other postmodern greats

The New William Faulkner Studies

The New William Faulkner Studies
Author: Sarah Gleeson-White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2022-07-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108899374

William Faulkner remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, and Faulkner Studies offers up seemingly endless ways to engage anew questions and problems that continue to occupy literary studies into the twenty-first century, and beyond the compass of Faulkner himself. His corpus has proved particularly accommodating of a range of perspectives and methodologies that include Black studies, visual culture studies, world literatures, modernist studies, print culture studies, gender and sexuality studies, sound studies, the energy humanities, and much else. The fifteen essays collected in The New William Faulkner Studies charts these developments in Faulkner scholarship over the course of this new century and offers prospects for further interrogation of his oeuvre.

Critical Companion to William Faulkner

Critical Companion to William Faulkner
Author: A. Nicholas Fargnoli
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2009
Genre: Mississippi
ISBN: 1438108591

As I Lay Dying; Light in August; The Sound and the Fury; Absalom, Absalom!; "The Bear"; and many others.

A Companion to William Faulkner

A Companion to William Faulkner
Author: Richard C. Moreland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2017-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119117933

This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist Comprises newly-commissioned essays written by an international contributor team of leading scholars Guides readers through the plethora of critical approaches to Faulkner over the past few decades Draws upon current Faulkner scholarship, as well as critically reflecting on previous interpretations

A Companion to Faulkner Studies

A Companion to Faulkner Studies
Author: Charles Peek
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2004-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313059659

Faulkner scholarship is one of the largest critical enterprises currently at work. Because of its size and scope, accessing that scholarship has become difficult for scholars, students, and general readers alike. This reference includes chapters on individual approaches to Faulkner studies, including archetypal, historical, biographical, feminist, and psychological criticism, among others. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and surveys the contributions of that approach to Faulkner scholarship. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography and glossary of critical terms. William Faulkner is one of the most widely read and studied American writers. His works have also generated a vast body of scholarship and elicited criticism from a wide range of approaches. Because of its size, scope, and diversity, accessing that scholarship has become difficult for scholars, students, and general readers alike. This reference comprehensively overviews the present state of Faulkner studies. The volume includes chapters written by expert contributors. Each chapter defines a particular critical approach and surveys the contributions of that approach to Faulkner studies. Some of the approaches covered are archetypal, biographical, feminist, historical, and psychological, among others. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography and glossary of critical terms.

Faulkner’s Ethics

Faulkner’s Ethics
Author: Michael Wainwright
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030688720

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner’s fiction, this study draws on The Methods of Ethics, the magnum opus of the utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity. It argues that Faulkner’s language is a moral medium that captures the ways in which people negotiate the ethical demands that life places on them. Tracing the contours of this evolving medium across six of the author’s major novels, it explores the basic precepts set out in The Methods of Ethics with the application of more recent contributions to moral philosophy, especially those of Jacques Derrida and Derek Parfit.