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| Book: | William Faulkner and Southern History |
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| Author: | Joel Williamson |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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One of America’s greatest novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as
The Sound and the Fury,
As I Lay Dying,
Light in August, and
Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place—the mythical Yoknapatawpha County—peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons and Sartorises. Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored his own region: the history and culture and people of the South. Now, in
William Faulkner and Southern History, one of America’s most acclaimed historians of the South, Joel Williamson, weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner, an astute analysis of his works, and a revealing history of Faulkner’s ancestors in Mississippi. It is a family history that becomes, in Williamson’s skilled hands, a vivid portrait of Southern culture itself.
This book makes the writings of William Faulkner—so often thought inscrutable—easily accessible to the general reader. Thoroughly researched and highly readable, it describes fully and clearly the cultural context that produced first the artist and then the art. If you read Faulkner, you will want to read this book.
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