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Faulkner's Modernisms
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Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Literary CriticismRegional: South
ISBN13: 9781496864574
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Sep 14 2026
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Contributions by Benjamin S. Child, Leigh Anne Duck, John N. Duvall, Amy A. Foley, Susan Stanford Friedman, Michael Gleason, Jolene Hubbs, Anne MacMaster, Sean McCann, Maggie E. Morris Davis, Julian Murphet, Ben Robbins, Benoît Tadié, Jay Watson, and Michael Zeitlin
Few would dispute today that William Faulkner belongs among the front ranks of literary modernists, though he was not typically viewed in those terms when publishing his major works. But what sort of modernist--or modernists--was he? This collection examines the who, what, where, when, and how of Faulkner's modernism: its characters and cohort, its key subjects and themes, its locations and periodization, and its defining aesthetic strategies.
The essays place Faulkner in dialogue with global modernists such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Richard Wright. Contributors explore his fascination with modern objects and architecture; his experiments in aviation and adaptation to avant-garde theater; the impact of modernity on childhood, family, and nation; his critique of eugenics, Fordism, and Taylorism; his phenomenology of race; and his movement from high to late modernism. They also question the very utility of the term modernism when applied to Faulkner's singular art. Faulkner's Modernisms offers a bracing reappraisal of one of the twentieth century's most challenging and idiosyncratic writers.
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