Faulkner from Within
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Faulkner from Within

Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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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 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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Part I 1927–1932
  9. 1 Faulkner Discovers His Native Territory
  10. 2 Faulkner’s First Great Novel: Anguish in the Genes
  11. 3 Destructive and Destroyed Being
  12. Part II 1935–1940
  13. 4 Verticality and Flight Passions
  14. 5 Faulkner and the Civil War
  15. 6 Faulkner’s Dialectical Novel
  16. 7 Economic, Moral, and Sexual Passions in The Hamlet
  17. Part III 1942
  18. 8 Curing the Work of Time
  19. Part IV 1948–1962
  20. 9 Beginning the Work of Redemption
  21. 10 Cleansing the Temple
  22. 11 War, Power, and The Book: Faulkner’s Fable for Tomorrow
  23. 12 Social Comedy in Yoknapatawpha County
  24. 13 Serene and Comic: The Joyful Act of Closure
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. Back Cover