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Following Faulkner

By Taylor Hagood

Following Faulkner Contemporary literature

Following Faulkner

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William Faulkner seems to have sprung a full-blown genius from a remote part of the American South. Yet Faulkner spent much of his life striving to emulate and overshadow - both as a writer and as a person - his great-grandfather and namesake, Colonel William Falkner, a dueling, railroad-building, soldiering figure who loomed not just as a legend in Faulkner's family and community but also as a literary forebear, a published novelist, travel writer, and poet. Looking back on his career, Faulkner would mention that early on he had ridden his great-grandfather's coattails, but by the mid-twentieth century it was clear that it was the great-grandson who was leading the literary world: readers, young writers of fiction, and literary critics were following him as one who had found extraordinary ways to capture and express the most challenging aspects of modern life. Taylor Hagood's book centers on the concept of following to examine how Faulkner's work has been analyzed, elucidated, and promoted by a massive body of scholarly work spanning over seven decades. It narrates the development of Faulkner criticism, taking as its premise the idea that Faulkner forges a fiery path through modernism and into postmodernism that literary critics have been constantly rushing to follow.
Product details
Number of Pages:
164
Release Date:
2017-03-15
Publication Date:
2017-03-15
Publisher:
Camden House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1571135871
ISBN13:
9781571135872
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
398 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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