Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415802956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 254 str.

Owen Robinson

Opis

Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner's work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the product of these mainly mental processes of construction at all levels, and it is in the similar and even analogous situations that exist between readers and writers of and in the fiction that the dynamic of Faulkner's work is most keenly discovered. The book discusses novels from throughout Faulkner's career, and uses elements of Bakhtinian and reader-response theory, among others, to explore its subject, eschewing the limited focus both of strictly formal and more content-oriented approaches, and demonstrating the need for readers and writers to work together, whether harmoniously or otherwise. By examining the fictive nature of Yoknapatawpha, and the requirement for everybody to participate fully in its creation, we can establish useful bases for investigations into the 'real world' issues with which Faulkner is so concerned.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 Faulkner and the Reader; Chapter 1 (you never smelled a frightened horse, did you?): The Sound and the Fury; Chapter 2 To Look Upon Evil: The Conspiring Reader of Sanctuary; Part 2 Writers in Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 3 Doing Things Bigger Than He Was: John Sartoris; Chapter 4 That Florid, Swaggering Gesture: Thomas Sutpen; Chapter 5 Monuments and Footprints: The Mythology of Flem Snopes; Part 3 Readers in Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 6 Witnesses to the Extinction: Reading the Sartoris Text; Chapter 7 Perhaps (I Like to Think This): Reading Absalom, Absalom! and the Sutpen Text; Chapter 8 Interested Part ies and Theorems to Prove: Snopeswatching; Part 4 Creating Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 9 But why? But why?: Ike McCaslin, and the Reading and Writing of Books in the Midst of Desolation; Chapter 10 Liable to Be Anything: Joe Christmas, Yoknapatawphan; Chapter 11 Anyone Watching Us Can See: The Democracy of Perspective in As I Lay Dying; Chapter 12 The Loom and the Rug: The Making of a World;

O autorze

Owen Robinson