Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner

ISBN-13: 9781578068807 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 184 str.

Deborah Clarke

Opis

William Faulkner claimed that it may be necessary for a writer to -rob his mother, - should the need arise. -If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies, - he remarked.This study of Faulkner's paradoxical attitude toward women, particularly mothers, will stimulate debate and concern, for his novels are shown here to have presented them as both a source and a threat to being and to language.-My reading of Faulkner, - the author says, -attempts more than an identification of female stereotypes and an examination of misogyny, for Faulkner, who almost certainly feared and mistrusted women, also sees in them a mysterious, often threatening power, which is often aligned with his own creativity and the grounds of his own fiction.-Drawing on both American and French feminist criticism, Robbing the Mother explores Faulkner's artistic vision through the maternal influence in such works as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Absalom, Absalom , The Hamlet, Light in August, and The Wild Palms.