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Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism.

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Lurie fills a gap in Faulkner studies by looking at the influence of film and popular culture on the great Mississippian's work. Choice 2005 Well structured and elegantly written, this is one of the most important recent books on Faulkner. -- Paula Elyseu American Literature 2006

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction. Adorno's Modernism and the Historicity of Popular Culture
Chapter 1. "Some Quality of Delicate Paradox": Sanctuary's Generative Conflict of High and Low
Chapter 2. "Get Me a Nigger": Master, Surveillance, and Joe Christmas's Spectral Identity
Chapter 3. "Some Trashy Myth of Reality's Escape": Romance, History, and Film Viewing in Absalom, Absalom!
Chapter 4. Screening Readerly Pleasures: Modernism, Melodrama, and Mass Markets in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
Conclusion. Modernism, Jail Cells, and the Senses
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/09/2004
      ISBN13: 9780801879296, 978-0801879296
      ISBN10: 0801879299
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism.

      Trade Review
      Lurie fills a gap in Faulkner studies by looking at the influence of film and popular culture on the great Mississippian's work. Choice 2005 Well structured and elegantly written, this is one of the most important recent books on Faulkner. -- Paula Elyseu American Literature 2006

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction. Adorno's Modernism and the Historicity of Popular Culture
      Chapter 1. "Some Quality of Delicate Paradox": Sanctuary's Generative Conflict of High and Low
      Chapter 2. "Get Me a Nigger": Master, Surveillance, and Joe Christmas's Spectral Identity
      Chapter 3. "Some Trashy Myth of Reality's Escape": Romance, History, and Film Viewing in Absalom, Absalom!
      Chapter 4. Screening Readerly Pleasures: Modernism, Melodrama, and Mass Markets in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
      Conclusion. Modernism, Jail Cells, and the Senses
      Notes
      Works Cited
      Index

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