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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSwiggart, Peter
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Art of Faulkner's Novels /
_cPeter Swiggart.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1962
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tAcknowledgments of Permissions --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPreface --
_tPART ONE: FAULKNER’S NARRATIVE WORLD --
_t1. Faulkner as Romancer --
_t2. Themes and Techniques --
_t3. The Use of Social Myth --
_t4. Man against Nature --
_t5. Experiments in Narration --
_tPART TWO: THE MAJOR NOVELS --
_t6. Rage against Time --
_t7. A Modern Mock-Epic: --
_t8. The Puritan Sinner: --
_t9. A Puritan Tragedy: --
_tPART THREE: LATER WORKS --
_t10. From Go Down, Moses to A Fable --
_t11. The Snopes Trilogy --
_tA Note on The Reivers --
_tSelected Faulkner Works --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aTo say that the entirety of human experience can be a novelist’s theme is to voice an absurdity. But, as Peter Swiggart convincingly argues, Faulkner’s work can be viewed as an extraordinary attempt to transform the panorama of man’s social experience into thematic material. Faulkner’s two-dimensional characters, his rhetorical circumlocutions, and his technical experiments are efforts to achieve a dramatic focus upon material too unwieldy, at least in principle, for any kind of fictional condensation. Faulkner makes use of devices of stylization that apply to virtually every aspect of his successful novels. For example, the complex facts of Southern history and culture are reduced to the scale of a simplified and yet grandiose social mythology: the degeneration of the white aristocracy, the rise of Snopesism, and the white Southerner’s gradual recognition of his latent sense of racial guilt. Within Faulkner’s fictional universe, human psychology takes the form of absolute distinctions between puritan and nonpuritan characters, between individuals corrupted by moral rationality and those who are simultaneously free of moral corruption and social involvement. In this way Faulkner is able to create the impression of a comprehensive treatment of important social concerns and universal moral issues. Like Henry James, he makes as much as he can of clearly defined dramatic events, until they seem to echo the potential complexity and depth of situations outside the realm of fiction. When this technique is successful the reader is left with the impression that he knows a Faulkner character far better than he could know an actual person. At the same time, the character retains the atmosphere of complexity and mystery imposed upon it by Faulkner’s handling of style and structure. This method of characterization reflects Faulkner’s simplifications of experience and yet suggests the inadequacy of any rigid interpretation of actual behavior. The reader is supplied with special eyeglasses through which the tragedy of the South, as well as humanity’s general inhumanity to itself, can be viewed in a perspective of simultaneous mystery and symbolic clarity.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/731660
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292769380
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