Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner

Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
ISBN-10
1602357358
ISBN-13
9781602357358
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
388
Language
English
Published
2003-11-14
Publisher
Parlor Press LLC
Author
William H. Rueckert

Description

Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert’s lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner’s development as a novelist through eighteen novels—ranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reivers—to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption. At the heart of Faulkner from Within is Rueckert’s sustained treatment of Go Down, Moses, a turning point in Faulkner’s career away from the destructive selves of the earlier novels and—as first manifest in Ike McCaslin—toward the generative selves of his later work. Faulkner from Within is a wide-ranging, beautifully written appreciation and analysis of the imaginative life of a great American author and his complex work.

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