{"product_id":"william-faulkner-and-mortality-9780367501358","title":"William Faulkner and Mortality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Faulkner and Mortality\u003c\/em\u003e is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner's fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner's work that claimed that writing was his authorial method of saying No to death'. Through close-readings of six key works  \u003cem\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, A Rose for Emily, \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGo Down, Moses\u003c\/em\u003e  this book examines how Faulkner's characters confront various experiences of human mortality, including grief, bereavement, mourning, and violence. The trauma and ambivalence caused by these experiences ultimately compel these characters to say Yes to death'. The book makes a clear distinction between Faulkner's quest for literary immortality through writing and the desire for death exhibited by the principal characters in the works analysed. \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new pa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This volume brings a valuable contribution to Faulknerian criticism, a noteworthy achievement for an author on whom so much has been written. Honeini’s prose is clear, and the arguments put forward are utterly convincing and perspicuous.\"-- \u003cstrong\u003eSolveig Dunkel (University of Picardy-Jules Verne), in \u003ci\u003eTransatlantica: American Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 2021 (Volume 2)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This volume brings a valuable contribution to Faulknerian criticism, a noteworthy achievement for an author on whom so much has been written. Honeini’s prose is clear, and the arguments put forward are utterly convincing and perspicuous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- \u003cstrong\u003eSolveig Dunkel (University of Picardy-Jules Verne), in \u003ci\u003eTransatlantica: American Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 2021 (Volume 2)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound\u003c\/i\u003e is a key work for any scholars looking at the author’s mediations on loss, life, grief, and more broadly, gendered life in the American South.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-- Katie Anne Tobin (University of Durham), \u003ci\u003eUnited States Studies Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: Saying No to Death? William Faulkner’s aesthetic of mortality\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaying Yes to death in Faulkner’s fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe literary tradition of immortality and the modern denial of death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI listen to the voices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: A fine dead sound: Quentin Compson’s suicide in \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune Second, 1910: Morning – An affectless voice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe word that Quentin cannot say\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle Sister death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune Second, 1910: Night – A fine dead sound\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda: Three reactions to Quentin’s suicide \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: Living was terrible: Confrontations with mortality in \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGetting ready to stay dead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shoddy job\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wet seed in the hot blind earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy mother is a fish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat goddamn box\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have no mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow I can get them teeth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: Burying the fallen monument: The death of the Old South in \"A Rose for Emily\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fallen monument to the Old South \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA body submerged in water\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI want some poison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strand of iron-gray hair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily’s rose for the narrator\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: A bloody mischancing of human affairs: Murder and violence in \u003ci\u003eLight in August \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rootless stranger: Alienation and racial exclusion in \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething is going to happen to me: The murder of Joe Christmas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn act of passion and violence: The legend of Thomas Sutpen in \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m going to tech you, Kernel: Wash Jones’s tragic design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5: Ah’m goan home: Narration, homegoing, and whiteness in \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGo Down, Moses\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaulkner’s narrational distance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomegoing and the subversion of African American funerary culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome home, whar we can help you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAh’m snakebit and bound to die\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack bereavement through the lens of whiteness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe just wanted him home \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: \u003cstrong\u003eBreaking the pencil: Death and voice in Faulkner’s fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017931456855,"sku":"9780367501358","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367501358.jpg?v=1750775110","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/william-faulkner-and-mortality-9780367501358","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}