
Faulkner from Within
Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
- 384 pages
- English
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Faulkner from Within
Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
About this book
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 novelsāranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reiversāto 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 andāas first manifest in Ike McCaslinātoward 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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Part I 1927ā1932
- 1 Faulkner Discovers His Native Territory
- 2 Faulknerās First Great Novel: Anguish in the Genes
- 3 Destructive and Destroyed Being
- Part II 1935ā1940
- 4 Verticality and Flight Passions
- 5 Faulkner and the Civil War
- 6 Faulknerās Dialectical Novel
- 7 Economic, Moral, and Sexual Passions in The Hamlet
- Part III 1942
- 8 Curing the Work of Time
- Part IV 1948ā1962
- 9 Beginning the Work of Redemption
- 10 Cleansing the Temple
- 11 War, Power, and The Book: Faulknerās Fable for Tomorrow
- 12 Social Comedy in Yoknapatawpha County
- 13 Serene and Comic: The Joyful Act of Closure
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover