Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction

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Taylor & Francis, 2006 - 252 páginas

Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the product of these mainly mental processes of construction at all levels, and it is in the similar and even analogous situations that exist between readers and writers of and in the fiction that the dynamic of Faulkner’s work is most keenly discovered. The book discusses novels from throughout Faulkner’s career, and uses elements of Bakhtinian and reader-response theory, among others, to explore its subject, eschewing the limited focus both of strictly formal and more content-oriented approaches, and demonstrating the need for readers and writers to work together, whether harmoniously or otherwise. By examining the fictive nature of Yoknapatawpha, and the requirement for everybody to participate fully in its creation, we can establish useful bases for investigations into the ‘real world’ issues with which Faulkner is so concerned.

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Introduction
1
Part 1 Faulkner and the Reader
9
The Sound and the Fury
13
The Conspiring Reader of Sanctuary
31
Part 2 Writers in Yoknapatawpha
41
John Sartoris
45
Thomas Sutpen
49
The Mythology of Flem Snopes
67
Snopeswatching
121
Part 4 Creating Yoknapatawpha
141
Ike McCaslin and the Reading and Writing of Books in the Midst of Desolation
145
Joe Christmas Yoknapatawphan
163
The Democracy of Perspective in As I Lay Dying
185
The Making of a World
199
Notes
217
Bibliography
239

Part 3 Readers in Yoknapatawpha
85
Reading the Sartoris Text
89
Reading Absalom Absalom and the Sutpen Text
99
Index
247
Back cover
253
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