The general argument advanced by the Morrises in this ambitious work revolves around the idea that William Faulkner is deeply critical of the prevailing Southern myth and discourse; furthermore, that his narratives are an attempt to discover and amplify alternative voices within that dominant milieu. Those voices and the stories they tell are most often those of the unprivileged in race, class, and gender--the black, the poor white, the woman, the neurotic, and so forth--who act out the disintegration of Southern culture ...
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The general argument advanced by the Morrises in this ambitious work revolves around the idea that William Faulkner is deeply critical of the prevailing Southern myth and discourse; furthermore, that his narratives are an attempt to discover and amplify alternative voices within that dominant milieu. Those voices and the stories they tell are most often those of the unprivileged in race, class, and gender--the black, the poor white, the woman, the neurotic, and so forth--who act out the disintegration of Southern culture even as they may be said to hold it together in a communal act of mythmaking. This "reading" thus makes the case (a largely revisionary one) for Faulkner as a fully engaged political writer, a writer embroiled in the process of the subversion and dissolution not only of dominant Southern myth, but of dominant Southern reality as well. Structured in the way Faulkner imagined his entire fictional universe--as a single narrative-- Reading Faulkner 's incremental design results in a "story" that has much of the drive and force of Faulkner's "story" itself.
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Fine in near fine jacket. 1989 Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. Condition rates as Fine, in a Near Fine Dust Jacket that shows the very lightest shelf wear.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 261 p. Wisconsin Project on American Writers. Audience: General/trade. 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hardcover in Near Fine DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; light dust spotting on text block top edge; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; 1/4 inch closed tear at mid-front cover/spine joint. 8vo, 259 pp; index.
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Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. 24x16cm, ix, 259 pp. Contents: Reading the Critics: Representation: Theory & Practice; Political Writing/ Political Interpretation; Great Works, Late Works: The Representation of the Present; Roads & the Disintegrating Family; Violence: Writing as Revision & Perversion; "Art & Southern Life": Revision, Repression, Perversion; Reading the Texts: Genealogy & Writing; "They Ain' t My Sartorises...I Just Inherited 'Em"; Narrative Voice: A Narrated Within the Narrator; A Writing Lesson: The Recovery of Antigone; A Writing Lesson: 'As I Lay Dying' as Tour de Force.