Faulkner’s Marginal Couple : : Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities / / John N. Duvall.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1990
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (182 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations Used
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One Invisible Communities
  • 1 Alternative Communities in Faulkner
  • 2 Murder and the Communities: "Nice Believing" in Light in August
  • 3 Androgyny in The Wild Palms: Variations on Light in August
  • Part Two Outlaw Communities
  • 4 "Man Enough to Call You Whore": And Daddy Makes Three in Sanctuary
  • 5 Paternity in Pylon: "Some Little Sign?"
  • Part Three. Unspeakable Community
  • 6 Patriarchal Designation: The Repression of the Feminine in Absalom, Absalom!
  • 7 Female Subject Positions in Faulkner
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index