Reading Faulknerian Tragedy /

Reading Faulknerian Tragedy / / Warwick Wadlington.

"This could be the best Faulkner study of the decade, the counterpart of Vickery in the 50s and Brooks in the 60s. It is ambitious,powerfully well-informed, and quite as pathbreaking in its approach as one would expect from the author of The Confidence Game in American Literature." -Gary L...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Wadlington, Warwick,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1987
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: On Saying No to Death
  • CHAPTER 1. Reading and Performance: Reproduction and Persons
  • CHAPTER 2. Faulkner and the Tragic Potentials of Honor and Shame
  • CHAPTER 3. A Logic of Tragedy: The Sound and the Fury
  • CHAPTER 4. Voice as Hero: As I Lay Dying and the Mortuary Trilogy
  • CHAPTER 5. Rest in Peace: The Promise and End of Light in August
  • CHAPTER 6. The House of Absalorn, Absalom!: Voices, Daughters, and the Question of Catharsis
  • Appendix A. Some Limitations of Deconstructive "Reading"
  • Appendix B. Studying Actual Readers
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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