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Book SynopsisTraces how the William Faulkner's fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's modernization in the mid-twentieth century. By demonstrating the interrelation of literary forms and economic systems, this book describes, the poetics of an economy. It makes helps the reader understand the relation between literature and history.
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2007 Book Prize, British Association for American Studies "William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words is an important contribution to Faulkner studies."--Barbara Ladd, Studies in American Fiction "For readers who enjoyed and admired the first volume, this one offers vintage Godden and potentially paradigm-shifting criticism... It is in the close readings that the energies of this book lie and where the reader will find the most satisfaction and the furtherance of Faulkner scholarship."--Taylor Hagood, Journal of American Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Earthing The Hamlet 11 CHAPTER TWO: Comparative Cows: Reading The Hamlet for Its Residues 42 CHAPTER THREE: Revenants, Remnants, and Counterrevolution in "The Fire and the Hearth" 60 CHAPTER FOUR: "Pantaloon in Black" and "The Old People": Migration, Mourning, and the Exquisite Corpse of African American Labor 87 CHAPTER FIVE: Reading the Ledgers: Textual Variants and Labor Variables (with Noel Polk) 119 CHAPTER SIX: Find the Jew: Modernity, Seriality, and Armaments in A Fable 156 CHAPTER SEVEN: "The Bugger's a Jew": A Fable as Melancholic Allegory 179 Notes 203 Index 235
