William Faulkner
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02284-4 (ISBN)
André Bleikasten (1933–2009) was Professor of American Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France and a prominent Faulkner scholar, internationally acclaimed for his study of Faulkner's early works in The Ink of Melancholy. He is also known for his studies of Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor.
Foreword / Philip Weinstein
Testimony and Acknowledgements / Aimée Bleikasten
Introduction / André Bleikasten
List of Abbreviations
1. F(a)ulkner, Mississippi
A little history, a little geography
Three fathers, two mothers
Childhood
The attitudes of adolescence
2. Apprenticeships
Pan and Pierrot: the first masks
(Self)criticism
In New Orleans
The switch to prose
3. Birth of a Novelist
The first novel: Soldiers' Pay
An American in Paris
Incomplete portrait of the artist as an artist: Elmer
A diversion: Mosquitoes
4. The First Flowering
The invention of Yoknapatawpha: Flags in the Dust
The most splendid failure: The Sound and the Fury
The most horrific story: Sanctuary
Mourning becomes the Bundrens: As I Lay Dying
Versions of the sun: Light in August
5. Mid-way
Scenes from married life
The Master of Rowan Oak
The first shadows
Back and forth to Hollywood
Meta
6. From Pylon to Go Down, Moses
The hell of fascination: Pylon
The novel as research: Absalom, Absalom!
Southern Tales: The Unvanquished
Fault lines, flux and floods: If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
A comical pastoral: The Hamlet
Legacies: Go Down, Moses
7. The Dark Years
Under siege
Hollywood, again
Lucas' lesson: Intruder in the Dust
A conventional detective story: Knight's Gambit
Joan
8. Fame—At Last
The Nobel Prize
The public man
Setbacks, distress and other miseries
Requiem for a Nun: the education of Temple Drake
The Gospel according to Faulkner: A Fable
9. The End
The Virginia years
The Snopes, second and final instalment: The Town and The Mansion
The farewell smile: The Reivers
The rider unseated
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Works
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2017 |
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Übersetzer | Miriam Watchorn |
Vorwort | Philip Weinstein |
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 930 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-02284-3 / 0253022843 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-02284-4 / 9780253022844 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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