Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
- ISBN-10
- 1932559027
- ISBN-13
- 9781932559026
- Category
- Comportement autodestructeur dans la littérature
- Pages
- 361
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Parlor Press LLC
- Author
- William H. Rueckert
Description
Rueckert tracks Faulkner's development as a novelist through 18 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.
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- 2003-11-14
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