{"product_id":"william-faulkner-9780470672402","title":"William Faulkner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner's literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernist method.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is largely due to this diversity of approaches and Matthews' ability to accessibly convey his formidable learning that his book achieves its dual aims: introducing Faulkner to first-timers while modifying an established critical tradition for the sake of a larger reading audience . . . seeing Through the South is a bold, many-sided, and at times surprising book-qualities that are not often combined in the typical introductory volume and are bolstered by Matthews' enthusiasm for his subject and his subtle engagement with Faulkner's daunting critical heritage.\" (\u003ci\u003eNotes and Queries\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 June 2011)  \u003cp\u003e\"Matthews faces the crisis of Faulkner scholarship-with its cardboard Faulkners and its truncated canon-by giving us a more expansive, more relevant, and, frankly, more interesting Faulkner. His readings of the novels, particularly \u003ci\u003eSanctuary; If I Forget Thee; Jerusalem; Go Down, Moses; The Sound and the Fury; Absalom! Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e; and the Snopes trilogy, are simply indispensable. Beautifully written and obviously the product of long years of scholarship, these readings affirm the \"complex mixtures\" that make Faulkner one of America's greatest novelist.\"(Black Hills State University)\"John T. Matthews's \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner: Seeing through the South\u003c\/i\u003e is the rare book that will prove vital and engaging both for readers new to Faulkner's writing and for scholars long devoted to it.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010)\"[A] compelling and richly engaging book [that] skilfully opens ways into Faulkner's writing for new readers and reinvigorates for his wider audience a sense of what we might talk about when we talk about Faulkner today.... For all the relaxed manner of Matthews's address—his witty analogies, comfortable idiom, pleasurable clarifications, jokes and almost unforgiveable puns—his book speaks urgently to modern readers.\" (\u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The present excellent book deals with the cohesiveness of Faulkner’s work as an evolving project … Matthews is a master of literary theory without being mastered by it, and he has gifts as a close reader ... Highly recommended.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"John T. Matthews' lucid critical biography examines Faulkner's writerly persona and his rich fiction as developing organically out of precise aesthetic and social preoccupations best illustrated through a variety of methodologies.... Matthews has previously explored modernist, post-structuralist, materialist and Marxist ways of reading Faulkner, and this critical suppleness benefits and supports student readers.\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn T. Matthews's \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner: Seeing through the South\u003c\/i\u003e is the rare book that will prove vital and engaging both for readers new to Faulkner's writing and for scholars long devoted to it.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations vi  \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eSeeing Through the South:\u003c\/i\u003e Faulkner and the Life Work of Writing 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 An Artist Never Quite at Home: Faulkner's Apprehension of Modern Life 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 That Evening Son Go Down: The Plantation South at Twilight 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Come Up: From Red Necks to Riches 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Planting of Men: The South and New World Colonialism 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 302\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402401358167,"sku":"9780470672402","price":25.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470672402.jpg?v=1730480289","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/william-faulkner-9780470672402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}