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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

Gorra, Michael

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Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismCivil War Period (1850-1877)

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ISBN10: 1324091010
ISBN13: 9781324091011
Publisher: Liveright Pub Corp
Published: Oct 5 2021
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
With this rich, complex, and eloquent (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author through his most cherished--and contested--novels. Given the undeniable echoes of Lost Cause romanticism in William Faulkner's fiction, as well as his depiction of Black characters and Black speech, Gorra argues convincingly that Faulkner demands a sobering reevaluation. Upending previous critical traditions and interweaving biography, literary criticism, and rich travelogue, the widely acclaimed The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today.

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