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From: William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist by Daniel J. Singal Published by: The University of North Carolina Press, available September 1997
ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Progenitor: The First William Falkner 2. Poplars and Peacocks, Nymphs and Fauns 3. Fierce, Small, and Impregnably Virginal 4. Discovering Yoknapatawpha 5. All Things Become Shadowy Paradoxical 6. Into the Void 7.The Making of a Modernist Identity: Light in August 8. The Dark House of Southern History 9. Ruthless and Unbearable Honesty 10. Diminished Powers: The Writing of Go Down, Moses Coda Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations Statue of Colonel William C. Falkner in Ripley, Mississippi Estelle Oldham as an adolescent in 1913 William Faulkner as "Count No-Count" in the early 1920s William Faulkner the emerging novelist in New Orleans in the mid-1920s The county courthouse and monument of the Confederate soldier in Oxford, Mississippi William Faulkner the Modernist author at work in his study William Faulkner the gentleman bohemian in the mid-1930s William Faulkner the Virginia squire in his riding attire during the late 1950s The University of North Carolina Press 1-800-848-6224 If you would like to receive more information about this book when it is published, send us an email. Be sure to include your mailing or email address. |